Public health directory - news

The following websites often contain public health-related news stories.  The list is not exhaustive by any means, and has a deliberate UK slant to it, but if you think there are any major sites missing please let me know.

General

• BBC News | Health (D)
• Google News UK | Health (D)
• Reuters AlertNet (D)
• SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Health (D)
• World Health News, Harvard School of PH (D)
• National Library for Health - Hitting the Headlines (D)

Health policy

• World Health Organization (D)
• UK Department of Health (D)
  
• UK DH Chief Medical Officer Updates (I)
  
• UK Government News Network (D)
  
• info4local Health updates (D)
  
• European Commission Public Health Unit (D)
  
• NICE Health & Clinical Excellence bulletin (M)
  
• Health Service Journal (W)
  
• Faculty of Public Health ph.com newsletter (Q)

Health protection

• HPA Health Protection Report (W)
• HPA News Archive (I)
  
• HPA CHaPD (Chemical Hazards and Poisons Division) Report (Q)
  
• Eurosurveillance Weekly Release (W)
  
• ProMED (Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases) (D)

Research

• BMJ (W)
• The Lancet (W)
  
• New England Journal of Medicine (W)
  
• Journal of the American Medical Association (W)
  
• American Journal of Public Health (M)
  
• Journal of Public Health (Q)
  
• BMC Public Health (I)

Key  D=daily, W=weekly, F=fortnightly, M=monthly
Q=quarterly, I=irregularly

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