The average low-income person loses 8.2 years of perfect health, the average high school dropout loses 5.1 years, and the obese lose 4.2 years, according to researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Tobacco control has long been one of the most important public health policies, and rightly so; the average smoker loses [...]

Women who have an early menopause are unlikely to have a long term increased risk of hip fractures associated with menopausal bone density weakening, according to a new study from The Australian National University.

The Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney TD today, 4th November, 2009, launched the Government’s new ‘Action Plan for Health Research’ together with the Health Research Board’s strategic business plan.

Indigenous mothers who were removed from their natural families during childhood are more likely than other Indigenous mothers to be victims of violence, according to the results of research published in the Medical Journal of Australia.

In 2006, it was estimated that 166 million adults worldwide aged 15-64 years (1 in 25 people in that age range) had used cannabis, despite the risks of its adverse effects on health. The issues surrounding cannabis use are discussed in a Review in this week’s edition of The Lancet, written by Professor Wayne Hall, [...]