WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
Some 40 drugs will soon be notified under a new schedule, H1, of Drugs and Cosmetics Act to make it mandatory for chemists to maintain a register of their sales and retain a copy of the prescription. This will be in addition to the schedule H drugs which, too, can't …
KATHMANDU: Kathmandu District Public Health Office (DPHO) is conducting a Mass Drug Administration (MDA) campaign against lymphatic filariasis, commonly known as encephalitis, targeting 1,550,000 people from February 2 to 5. Health workers will visit from door to door to administer drugs to people from above two to below 60 years …
Breathe Easy Plan calls for inspection of pvt vehicles, hike in parking charges. Shuttering coal power plants, promoting motor-less transport and strict penalty for those violating pollution control norms are among the suggestions that the government is looking at to improve the air quality in the city over the next …
Beijing temporarily shut down 103 heavily polluting factories and took 30 percent of government vehicles off roads to combat dangerously high air pollution, state media reported on Tuesday, but the capital's air remained hazardous despite the measures. Air quality in Beijing has mostly stayed above "very unhealthy" and "hazardous" levels …
Beijing residents advised to stay indoors as much as possible with severe pollution at levels 'beyond index' Dangerously high pollution levels have shrouded Beijing in smog for the second time in about two weeks, forcing airlines to cancel flights because of poor visibility and prompting the city government to warn …
Aimed at helping school children to avoid the negative effect of irrational use of medicines, the Delhi Society for Promotion of Rational Use of Drugs (DSPRUD) in collaboration with Delhi Public School, Mathura Road, organised an awareness programme on Monday. Speaking about the programme, DSPRUD executive president Usha Gupta said: …
The survey covered 97.78 per cent of the population In a one-of-its-kind census conducted by Punjab’s Health & Family Welfare Ministry in coordination with the World Health Organisation, major medical institutions, non-government organisations and social activists it has been revealed that while 33,318 people died of cancer in the past …
Confirming Punjab government's worst fears, a door-to-door survey of the health department — covering almost 98 per cent of the state's population — has found that the incidence of cancer is higher than national and international average. When compared to World Health Organisartion's point of reference — 80 affected among …
Head of the Polio Eradication Initiative at WHO Pakistan Dr Elias Durry has said that Pakistan is on the track to get rid of polio virus type 3 (P3). According to the WHO, type 2 strain of the polio virus (P2) has been eradicated globally since 1999, Radio Pakistan reported. …
A World Health Organization (WHO) official says this is for the first time in the public health history of Pakistan that the country is on the track to get rid of poliovirus type 3 (P3), one of the two globally continuing strains of the wild poliovirus, in April. Last time, …
Ministry report says 'green' cars contribute significantly to air pollution and lung diseases Diesel fumes are significantly more damaging to health than those from petrol engines, according to research which shows that related air pollution contributes to lung disease, heart attacks, asthma and other respiratory problems. The findings, published by …
Two of the Midlands' biggest cities are breathing in record quantities of nitrogen dioxide. According to a recent study, Leicester has the highest levels of nitrogen dioxide in England, with Nottingham recording the second highest. Both have some of the highest levels in Europe, putting them 9th and 11th in …
China's environment minister said on Thursday that emissions of four major pollutants dropped last year and should fall by a similar level this year, but admitted the country faced a tough task in trying to end chronic air pollution. This winter's pollution, especially in northern China, has been so severe …
The program to combat pollution will place greater emphasis on monitoring, gathering and releasing information and tackling PM2.5, the minister leading the fight for cleaner air told a major anti-pollution conference. Environment Minister Zhou Shengxian said on Thursday that 39 more cities will start monitoring PM2.5 and release the readings …
Cyrus Poonawalla?s Serum Institute of India to enter injectable polio vaccine market, undercut Glaxo Billionaire Cyrus Poonawalla, founder of the world’s biggest maker of vaccines, will slash the price of polio immunisation and introduce shots for diarrhea and pneumonia, undercutting Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Poonawalla, who set up the Serum …
Contrary to the general impression, the incidence of cancer is not so alarming in Punjab, claims a door-to-door survey conducted recently by the state Health Department. The study covered 2,68,91,585 persons in 51,38,521 houses across Punjab. It found 24,460 confirmed cancer cases whereas 87,060 persons were kept in the suspected …
Beijing is to unveil unprecedented new rules governing how China's capital reacts to hazardous air pollution, the official Xinhua news agency said, as deteriorating air quality threatens to become a rallying point for wider political dissatisfaction. The rules will formalize previous ad-hoc measures, including shutting down factories, cutting back on …
The city of Beijing got worldwide attention last weekend as its readings for air pollution soared to unconscionably high levels, even for the usually smog-smothered residents of the Chinese capital. By mid-week readings had receded from “beyond index” to merely “hazardous”. But by then Shanghai was grappling with its own …
Dengue fever is now the fastest spreading insect-borne virus in the world and has reached “epidemic potential,” the World Health Organization says. Indeed, Dr. Scott Halstead, a leading dengue expert who has studied the virus for more than 50 years, goes even further: he believes the pandemic has already arrived. …
The World Health Organisation said on Wednesday that it had charted progress in the fight against tropical diseases but warned that dengue fever was spreading at an alarming rate. "In 2012, dengue ranked as the fastest spreading vector-borne viral disease, with an epidemic potential in the world, registering a 30-fold …
