With less than half the United States population fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and as the delta variant sweeps the nation, the U.S. surgeon general issued an advisory that called misinformation an urgent threat to public ...
Jul 29, 2021
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Companies selling snacks and fast food leveraged Aotearoa's first pandemic lockdown to market their unhealthy products to New Zealanders, a University of Auckland study shows.
Mar 8, 2021
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Social media platforms and those spreading deliberate vaccine misinformation should be held accountable and potentially face criminal sanctions, says Professor Melinda Mills, Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic ...
Feb 18, 2021
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Concern is growing about the spread of false information about vaccines. But should we consider criminalising people who deliberately spread false information—or could this do more harm than good? Two experts debate the ...
Feb 17, 2021
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There has been a lot of news coverage about the COVID-19 vaccines recently developed and now being administered across the U.S.
Dec 21, 2020
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A new poll conducted by the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at the University of Birmingham has found that over 70% of parents worry about the risks as well as the physical and mental health implications of their ...
Dec 3, 2020
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Let's talk breasts. It's a topic Dr. Amy Patel spends a lot of time discussing in a never-ending quest to dispel the myths women believe about breast cancer.
Oct 26, 2020
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Digital technologies have an important role to play in responding to future pandemics, a new study in the journal, Nature Medicine reports.
Aug 13, 2020
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If the media is anything to go by, you'd think people who believe coronavirus myths are white, middle-aged women called Karen.
Aug 10, 2020
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Tobacco companies are deliberately using "deadly" tactics to target children and get them hooked on smoking, the World Health Organization said Friday.
May 29, 2020
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