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 …
Public concerns triggered by intense smog that blanketed Chinese cities for much of the past week have prompted the government to pledge fresh emission curbs and to suspend work in 58 factories. The national environment watchdog announced on Tuesday that it would also put in place measures to limit vehicle …
Death toll due to measles epidemic across the country has climbed to 413 as eight more children affected of the disease expired on Tuesday in Kadhkot area of Sindh. According to details, despite tall claims of the provincial and health authorities, measles which broke out from different districts of Sindh …
Days after choking smog blanketed China's capital, the country's premier-designate added his voice to appeals to curb the toxic haze, but he offered few specifics and said there was no quick fix. The comments from Vice Premier Li Keqiang, who is expected to take over as premier at a national …
Vice-premier calls for immediate action as capital can learn from experience of other major cities that tackled pollution, report Zhang Chunyan in London, Chen Jia in San Francisco and Wu Wencong, Tang Yue in Beijing. China will strengthen the enforcement of environmental laws, and take other measures to tackle air …
Delhi-based biotechnology company Panacea Biotec is awaiting a nod from the World Health Organization (WHO) to resume supplying vaccines for the world immunisation programme from its units at Lalru (Haryana) and Baddi (Himachal Pradesh). Speaking to Business Standard, a senior company official said, “We expect WHO officials to visit our …
NEW DELHI: Beijing's air pollution made international news over the weekend when fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in the city air rose to an 'out-of-index' level of 755 mg/cu m. Pictures showed Beijing residents wearing masks amid advisories that they should stay indoors. Meanwhile, it was business as usual in Delhi …
Beijing: Public anger in China at dangerous levels of air pollution, which blanketed Beijing in acrid smog, spread on Monday as state media queried official transparency and the nation’s breakneck development. The media joined internet users in calling for a reevaluation of China’s modernization process, which has seen rapid urbanization …
BEIJING ordered government vehicles off the roads as part of an emergency response to ease air pollution that has smothered China's capital for the past three days, while warning the smog will persist until January 16. Hospitals were inundated with patients complaining of heart and respiratory ailments and the website …
Yellow Alert Issued As Dense Smog Covers Large Parts Of China; Traffic Hit Beijing: Chinese meteorological authority has issued a yellow alert for fog indicating dangerous levels of smog in China’s northern and western regions, including major cities like Beijing and Chengdu. It said parts of China were facing the …
‘40% Of Smokers Want To Quit The Habit’ Jaipur: Alarmed over several deaths reported in the state due to cancer caused by tobacco consumption, the medical, health and family welfare department has launched a massive anti-tobacco awareness campaign in rural Rajasthan, which is one of the biggest campaign in the …
India will soon revise its malaria mortality figures, with the new estimates expected to be at least 20 times more than what the health ministry portrays at present. A 16-member committee of the Indian Council of Medical Research, headed by its former director general Dr Padam Singh Pradhan, has found …
Hyderabad: Hyderabad is facing the threat of groundwater degradation beyond recoverable level, warn Indian researchers of a German University. A team of four researchers from the department of engineering geology and hydrogeology, RWTH Aachen University has taken up studies on the scarcity of water in the mega cities in India. …
Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have discovered a new molecule that, they say, could potentially lead to an anti-cancer drug, which may help reduce the dosage of current treatment methods like chemotherapy or radiotherapy. The molecule, aimed at killing cancer cells by blocking their DNA repair mechanism, …
Expressing dismay over the government’s inaction, the Supreme Court today restored the ban imposed on the advertisements on cigarettes and other tobacco products under a law enacted by Parliament in 2003. A Bench comprising Justices GS Singhvi and Gyan Sudha Misra said the stay granted by the Bombay High Court …
KARACHI – The World Health Organisation has announced that it is starting a large measles vaccination campaign targeting 2.9 million children in eight districts of Sindh as an emergency response to the outbreak in the province. Figures collected from various official sources and surveys provide evidence of the current outbreak …
The 'water ATM' can process 1,000 litres in an hour As dawn breaks, two queues start forming at the only petrol pump in Lakshmangarh, a small town in Rajasthan’s Alwar district. One, obviously, is of people waiting to get their vehicles’ fuel tanks refilled. The other is in front of …
At least 30 children have died due to measles outbreak only in Larkana but Secretary Health Aftab Ahmed Khatri could not confirm the details about the death toll in Sindh. Seven hundred and thirty-one to 2,000 children have been identified as suffering from measles and other deadly diseases only in …
More than 300 children died of measles last year as a result of three consecutive years of flooding, officials said on Tuesday. The United Nations’ World Health Organisation (WHO) stated, 306 children died of the highly infectious disease last year, 210 of them in Sindh, where the worst floods occurred …
The flood affected districts, where total deaths of children attributed to the suspected measles are 210 since January 2012.The World Health Organisation on Tuesday confirmed 210 deaths of children reported due to measles in Sindh this year, where most of the affected children died due to post measles complications such …
