Rachel Pannett

The new government halted a plan to outlaw smoking, a move critics call “a huge win for the tobacco industry” and “an act of idiocy” for public health.

A pandemic program allowed patients to administer abortion drugs at home up until 10 weeks, but an exam concluded the woman was 32 to 34 weeks pregnant.

Australia, which will prohibit recreational vaping, already bans children from purchasing e-cigarettes. But current rules are loosely enforced, researchers say.

Scotland is the first nation to make tampons and other menstrual products available free in public spaces in a bid to end “period poverty.”

Children ages 1 to 9 will be offered a booster dose amid global fears of a polio resurgence. The United States and Israel have also recently reported incidents.

Another proposal in the Inflation Reduction Act that caps insulin at $35 per month for Medicare patients was left untouched.

Despite digestive problems, ancient Europeans drank milk for millennia, the study found, casting doubt on theories on how humans evolved to tolerate it.

The monkeypox virus has been declared a global health emergency, but it is far less transmissible than the coronavirus that causes covid-19.

The World Health Organization said the monkeypox outbreak is an “evolving threat” but does not yet constitute an international public health emergency.

Amid declining case counts, the governors of New Jersey and Delaware announced plans to drop mask requirements in schools.