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Vaccine update provides immunisation practitioners with the latest developments in vaccines, vaccination policies and procedures.
Includes: Health matters; diabetes prevalence data; Men B vaccine success; National Diet and Nutrition Survey data.
People are urged to use the updated tool to find out their heart age and their risk of heart attack and stroke this World Heart Day.
Vaccine Update provides immunisation practitioners with the latest developments in vaccines, vaccination policies and procedures.
Stoptober is back for a fifth year to encourage the nation’s remaining 7 million smokers to quit together this October.
A report released today (15 September 2016) shows young Londoners count for a high number of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs).
The Helping Smokers Quit Programme is a call to action for all clinicians in London to tackle tobacco dependence.
Hot weather forecasts for parts of England have prompted warnings to take care from Public Health England (PHE).
New data from PHE reveals 3.8 million people in England aged over 16 had diabetes in 2015, around 9% of the adult population.
Includes: systemic anticancer treatment data published; measles vaccination advice; Cyclospora travel advice; report on syphilis.
The first major report using world-first systemic anticancer treatment (SACT) data has been published by Lancet Oncology today (31 August 2016).
Updates on investigations into an increase in cases of food and water bug, Cyclospora, associated with travellers returning from Mexico.
This vaccine update provides immunisation practitioners with the latest developments in vaccines, vaccination policies and procedures.
Young people urged to get vaccinated against meningitis and septicaemia before starting university.
PHE reminds Londoners to practice safe sex as rates of syphilis are 3 times higher in the capital than anywhere else in England.
Information on the national outbreak of E. coli O157 which has now been declared over.
Includes: Health matters; e-cigarettes; new advice on vitamin D and health; measles vaccination advice; PHE annual report and accounts.
PHE is advising that 10 micrograms of vitamin D are needed daily to help keep healthy bones, teeth and muscles.
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