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 …
While it has made progress on water supply, a high percentage continue to defecate in the open Going by the present pace of progress, India will achieve the millennium development goals (MDGs) on sanitation only by 2054. While some States had already achieved the target and some are close to …
The government on Tuesday contested the WHO figures that put the number of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases in India at 63,000, saying there were only 10,267. As many as 38,287 suspected cases were examined till the end of 2011 and of them, 10,267 have been diagnosed with MDR-TB and …
5.5 per cent of the Indian population is already aged over 65 years The World Health Organisation's theme on the upcoming World Health Day this year is “Ageing and Health”. According to Census 2011 data, 5.5 per cent of the Indian population is already aged over 65 years. While this …
Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra together accounted for 25% of all cancer deaths in India last year. While Delhi recorded lowest cancer mortalities (less than 9,000), West Bengal recorded the fourth highest cancer deaths (40,199), followed by Tamil Nadu (39,127). India officially recorded over half a million deaths due to cancer …
Japan has given United Nations children's fund UNICEF a grant of 120 million Yen, the equivalent to Rs. 7.2 crore, for buying vaccines, supplies, equipment and services in 2012 to ensure India remains free of polio virus. Japan's Ambassador to India Akitaka Saiki and UNICEF India Representative Karin Hulshof signed …
The percentage of MDR in new TB cases in India is 2.1 India had an estimated 63,000 cases of notified multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in 2010, the highest in the South East Asia region, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. The MDR-TB prevalence is estimated to be 2.3 per …
The Health Ministry has decided to ban serological diagnostic test for tuberculosis, in line with a World Health Organisation recommendation. India is going to become the first country to execute the ban on the test, which is highly inaccurate but commonly used. It is estimated that 1.5 million patients are …
Binayak Sen, leading human rights activist and vice-president of the People's Union of Civil Liberties, has said social and economic inequities are the major causes of ill-health and death in India. While state action ought to reduce the inequities, the neoliberal economic policies of the Central government have only created …
After having witnessed a year-long polio free period and being taken off the list of polio endemic countries, India is now looking at the endgame strategy to combat the deadly virus. With an aim to decide the long-term strategy in fighting the virus, the India Expert Advisory group (IEAG) which …
The government proposes to convert the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) into a National Health Mission to provide health care to the urban poor also, in the course of the 12th Plan. Universal access to free generic essential medicines in public health institutions in a phased and time-bound manner will …
The World Health Organisation has removed India from the list of polio affected countries but the polio eradication certificate will be granted to the nation if no case of polio would be reported from any part of the country in the next two to three years. WHO representative Dr Saurabh …
The world's water supply is being strained by climate change and the growing food, energy and sanitary needs of a fast-growing population, according to a United Nations study that calls for a radical rethink of policies to manage competing claims. "Freshwater is not being used sustainably," UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova …
In the last 15 days, three workers from one of the markets came down with the flu; however, they have recovered. The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) and International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B) made the detections. The affected markets are among the 16 …
Hong Kong has decided to come clean with data on a dangerous form of air pollution, a month and a half after Beijing, a city with smoggier skies and a murkier approach to statistics, did the same. After years of withholding the data, Hong Kong’s environmental protection department on Thursday …
While the world has met the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of safe drinking water well in advance of the MDG 2015 deadline, India is among the ten countries after China with the largest population without access to improved drinking water. According to the report issued by the World Health …
Present trends suggest that many of the poorest countries in the world, including many in sub-Saharan Africa, will not meet the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially MDG 4 (reducing under-five mortality) and MDG 5 (reducing maternal mortality). Even in those countries that are on track to meet health MDGs, …
Radiation and chemical-induced mutation and subsequent use in recombination breeding at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) has resulted in the release of 39 improved crop varieties in oilseeds and pulses in India, said Dr Ratan Kumar Sinha, Director, BARC, Mumbai. Delivering the 25th Annual Convocation address of the University of …
China said Friday that two-thirds of its cities currently fail to meet new air-quality standards introduced this week that are based on the pollutants most harmful to health. Under pressure from a worried Chinese public, the government this week issued revised air-quality targets based on the smallest particulates, which make …
43% Of Kids Under 5 Yrs Malnourished, Finds Unicef Study New Delhi: Modern India continues to be plagued by social and health ills like child marriage, early motherhood and domestic violence. Latest data in the “State of the World’s Children report 2012” released by Unicef on Wednesday shows that almost …
The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Administration has finalised all arrangements to administer polio drops to 102,000 children in the rural areas and 125,000 children in the urban areas of the federal capital during a four-day anti-polio drive starting from March 12. Islamabad Deputy Commissioner Amer Ali Ahmed, while presiding over …
