A rare strain, conflict and aid cuts make this outbreak more dangerous than ever. In the interconnected world we live in, the west can’t afford to turn away
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The hantavirus outbreak has been well-handled – but there are still dangerous days ahead | Devi Sridhar ⊖
All the protocols that health experts like me look for have been followed. But outbreaks on cruise ships are notoriously hard to control
Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the Unive…
35 days ago
A game-changer for good health? Scientists believe ‘we are when we eat’ | Devi Sridhar ⊕⊕
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Decades of advice on what to eat and what not to might have been missing one key ingredient, according to new research
Reduce your calories. Eat more vegetables. Limit soft drinks and junk foods. For …
41 days ago
A non-controversial public health policy? The UK's gradual ban on smoking has been a PR success | Devi Sridhar ⊖
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The world will be watching to see how the ban for anyone born after 2009 works out. So far it’s been a win with smokers and non-smokers alike
Last week saw the passage of the tobacco and vapes bill, w…
45 days ago
Even without social media, phones have a subtle, damaging effect on our mental health | Devi Sridhar ⊖⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Digital communication in its most basic forms can push us into an ‘always on’ state – and generate feelings of exclusion or rejection
When I first started teaching at Oxford in 2005, I would offer “o…
11 months ago
Is exercise really better than drugs for cancer remission? It's an appealing idea – but it's misleading | Devi Sridhar ○
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The healing power of exercise should never be underestimated, but be cautious about what recent headlines seem to suggest
Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinbu…
How can RFK Jr ‘Make America healthy again’? He is ignoring the two biggest killers of American children | Devi Sridhar ○
The US health secretary’s latest report is more interested in vaccine scepticism than the brutal toll inflicted by guns and road traffic accidents
“Make America healthy again”. We can all get behind t…
12 months ago
It’s my goal to live to 100 – and it’s not just diet and exercise that will help me achieve it | Devi Sridhar ○
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Every time my mind goes down the ‘optimisation’ route, I’m reminded of my job as a public health scientist, looking into the factors that affect how long we will live
Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of glo…
13 months ago
Good news at last: just a little exercise can reduce the risk of dementia | Devi Sridhar ○
A recent study shows the benefit of being a middle-aged ‘weekend warrior’ who only exercises once or twice a week
In these bleak times, glimmers of hope often seem to come out of the pages of scientif…
14 months ago
Could antibiotics stop working? Yes – but the biggest danger isn’t prescription-happy GPs | Devi Sridhar ○
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To prevent a catastrophic failure of the drugs modern medicine relies on, look to animal farming in middle-income countries
If the antibiotics we use to treat infections ever stopped working, the cons…