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 …
The Centre has told Parliament that the exposure limit for radio frequency fields (base station emissions) will be brought down to one-tenth of the existing level from September 1. This direction was to have been implemented from April 1. However, on an examination of the impact of the revised Electric …
Melbourne: A new smartphone case, made up of same material as Nasa spacecraft, claims to reduce cellphone radiation and cancer risks as it cuts the exposure by up to 95%. Although it still remains unclear as to exactly how bad the problem of cellphone radiation is, the WHO has already …
The Delhi Government on Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that it hopes that within two weeks it would be able to take a decision to ban manufacture and sale of gutka and any products which are taken as chewing stuff having nicotine and tobacco in them. Delhi Government Standing …
How the battle that won India’s war against polio was fought in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh A Friday evening. A muezzin in Pakbada, a densely populated village in Moradabad district in Uttar Pradesh, summons the faithful for prayers. He ends his call by reminding them that the next Sunday is Polio …
Tobacco use is massively entrenched in developing countries, where one of the biggest worries is the rise of smoking among women, according to a study published on Friday in The Lancet. A survey of 16 countries that are home to three billion people found that 48.6 percent of all men …
Data, transformed through aggregation and analysis into useful information, are key elements for decision making. This notion is true in general and has become a precept for promotion of health and control of disease. Tobacco use globally is the main preventable contributor to poor health and premature death.1 In The …
An inter-ministerial group tasked with regulating prices of patented medicines has recommended using a per capita income-linked reference pricing mechanism, a proposal that may reduce prices of several patented dugs by up to onethird but will hit the profitability of foreign companies. The committee, headed by an official from the …
Washington An Indian tech-firm has won a whopping grant of over USD 450,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to set up eco-friendly and hygienic "eToilets", making public conveniences more accessible to the urban poor. Thiruvananthapuram-based Eram Scientific Solutions Private Limited was awarded the grant as part of the …
The US state of Louisiana has in recent weeks seen a rise in cases of West Nile virus, which has caused two deaths. The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals announced on Monday that there has been 21 new West Nile cases in the southern state since last week. The …
If the results of a field trial started by the Health Ministry are favourable, doctors will no longer need to wait for months before starting a patient on a regimen for drug-resistant TB, thus losing valuable time in a critical case. The ministry has initiated field trials for a nucleic …
Polio virus has been found in the sewage water samples collected from Gadap Town, Karachi, after a gap of about four months. According to a press release issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Sunday, Gaddap Town is one of the polio virus reservoirs in the country and a …
During the week leading up to the Olympic Games, London experienced its worst ozone episode for six years. Fortunately fresh westerly winds began to clear London's air pollution just before the opening ceremony. On 21 July high pressure moved over the UK and air began to slowly circulate over southern …
SILCHAR: Though there has been significant increase in facilities for providing drinking water to more and more habitations during the period 2005 - 2010 by the two divisions of public health engineering department in Cachar district, the question about the quality of water has been raised in competent civil circles. …
WHO and partners hope that they can fi nally rid the world of polio. But insurgency, Taliban-initiated boycotts, and a US$1 billion funding defi cit will not make it an easy task. Dara Mohammadi reports.
Around 22,000 Pakistani children are at risk in Karachi after the World Health Organisation (WHO) suspended polio vaccinations over a spate of bloody shootings, a UN official warned on Thursday. WHO, a partner in government efforts to eradicate the disease, suspended activities in part of Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, last …
What is the world wide trend in air pollution? On the surface North America and Europe have been gradually improving. However, that is due to often moving industry to other countries such as China or India where air pollution is a bit more of a problem. Most of the world's …
A World Health Organization official says the Ebola outbreak in Uganda is under control. Joaquim Saweka, the WHO representative in Uganda, told reporters Friday that everyone known to have had contact with Ebola victims has been isolated — a total of 176 people. Ebola was confirmed in Uganda on July …
This is the report of a Technical Working Group which was convened, in April 2012, to develop an OCV stockpile implementation framework. Participants advised on: the criteria for choice of stockpiled vaccine and its deployment; the appropriate size of an OCV stockpile; the managing partnership and evaluation processes required; the …
Codex Commission agrees on better standards on many food items exported by India, such as nuts, spices and seafood The Codex Alimentarius Commission, jointly run by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization, for food safety, has recently agreed on a new set of regulations — …
