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 …
Special Assistant (health) to Chief Minister Khawaja Salman Rafique has said the Punjab government will make its system more effective in eradicating the dengue virus in the light of recommendations and guidelines of medical experts of the three-day dengue conference. Addressing the concluding session of the international conference organized by …
In recent years, there has been much work done due to increasing recognition that children need better medicines. The United States of America and the European Union have adopted regulations to encourage research and development of medicines for children; the World Health Organization (WHO) has been promoting “Make medicines child …
Noncommunicable diseases pose an increasingly high burden of disease that threatens economic and social development, yet cost-effective health interventions exist. World leaders recognized the compelling case for action with the declaration at the United Nations high level meeting on noncommunicable diseases in September 2011. Since that meeting, the World Health …
It has been 35 years since 1977, when the world observed the last recorded case of naturally occurring smallpox. We had finally defeated a disease that had devastated mankind for centuries. It was a critical victory for the many doctors, scientists and health workers who laboured tirelessly to eradicate this …
India has just won a landmark victory in the long-drawn-out war on polio. Fourteen months have gone since 13 January 2011 without a single case of polio caused by wild poliovirus (WPV). But how sure are we that in this vast country, with about 125 million under-five children and a …
The OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050 asks “What could the next four decades bring?” Based on joint modelling by the OECD and the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, it looks forward to the year 2050 to ascertain what demographic and economic trends might mean for the environment if humanity does …
While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and several other dignitaries lined up at the Polio Summit at Vigyan Bhawan to take credit for making India free of polio endemic, the Government did little to acknowledge the contribution of one man who visualised the pulse polio …
The health ministry has suggested that the pricing of essential medicines be based on either the average price of the three cheapest brands or the government’s bulk procurement price, rejecting a draft policy of the department of pharmaceuticals. The ministry’s recommendation, made earlier this month, has drawn flak from drug …
The Health Ministry will set up the National Research Institute on Typhus Fever and Leishmaniasis in Hambantota. Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena has already instructed health officials to set up the Institute within the next few months using the resources of Malaria Project which has been abandoned, a Health Ministry spokesman …
After registering a zero-polio period in the last one year, India will now be aiming at eradicating measles, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said here on Sunday. "India still accounts for two-thirds of measles deaths across the world. We have to address all concerns associated with the measles now," Azad …
BHUBANESWAR: As the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared India polio-free, the Odisha Government on Sunday claimed that it has achieved zero-polio status for fours year on the trot. Marking the pulse polio immunisation drive, Health Minister Prasanna Acharya said although the State has achieved the zero-polio status for four consecutive …
India was taken off a list of polio endemic countries by the World Health Organisation on Saturday, marking a massive victory for health workers battling the crippling disease. "This gives us hope that we can finally eradicate polio not only from India but from the face of the earth," Prime …
The quality of potable water is going down constantly due to biological contamination from human waste and effluent from industries and agricultural inputs, reveals a PCRWR report. The Pakistan Council for Research of Water Resources (PCRWR) report says that pipelines close to sewerage were also one of the reasons for …
India, which has been polio-free for over a year now, was on Saturday taken off the list of polio endemic countries by the World Health Organisation. This announcement was made by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad at the polio summit 2012 here in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. …
India, which has been polio-free for over a year now, was today taken off the list of polio endemic countries by the World Health Organisation. This announcement was made by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad at the polio summit 2012 here in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Azad …
An elite group of 22 influenza scientists, public health officials, and journal editors from 11 countries recommended last week that the details of how a highly pathogenic bird flu virus was rendered capable of being transmitted easily among mammals be published in full. The recommendation, agreed to at a meeting …
Urbanisation, influx of pilgrims, fertilizer-intensive farming, and indiscriminate sand-mining have impacted on the water quality of Manimala river, a major source of drinking water in Kottayam and Pathanamthitta districts. A report published in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, an international journal devoted to progress in the use of monitoring data in …
Bird flu experts meeting in Geneva have ruled that controversial research on a mutant form of the virus potentially capable of being spread among humans should be made public. Security assessments must however be carried out first before the two studies can be published and the research can continue, scientists …
Smoke from burning forests and grasslands kills on average 339,000 people a year world-wide, an international research team said Sunday in the first systematic global health study of air pollution from wildfires. Every year, accidental and deliberate wildfires burn an area that, taken together, is larger than India. The dense …
Report says notwithstanding the success in India, current stalemate is unsustainable “It is now or never” for the global polio eradication programme, the Independent Monitoring Board that periodically evaluates the worldwide effort has warned. Unless an emergency response produced quick results, the programme could “fail monumentally.” Notwithstanding the success in …
