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 World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that 0.97 million people died annually due to poor water and sanitation facilities in the country and around 54,000 children under the age of five years also die from diarrhea caused by poor water and sanitation every year. According to a report “off-track, …
The World Health Organization (WHO) released a roadmap that outlines its goals and objectives for the enhanced control, prevention, elimination and eradication of neglected tropical diseases. Accelerating work to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases – A roadmap for implementation builds on the success of WHO’s integrated approach …
With cancer cases rocketing in India, the Union health ministry has prepared a Rs 15,855-crore plan for its early diagnosis and treatment over the next five years. This is the largest chunk of India’s overall budget for non-communicable diseases (Rs 58,000 crore — a 500% increase from the 11th Plan). …
Independent, smart, tech-savvy and ready to take on the world. Meet the new-age Delhi kids. Groomed in the best schools and brought up with access to state-of-the-art health facilities and information, they sure are a confident lot. However, there’s a flipside to being born in Delhi, they feel. Piya Gill, …
After much dilly-dallying, the Centre has finally agreed to do away with Stavudine, having long-term irreversible side-effects, with a safer drug for HIV patients, even though the switchover will cost the government double the amount. The World Health Organisation (WHO) had in 2010 recommended to phase out Stavudine due to …
Meet from Feb 9 to focus on yoga, naturopathy as preventive cure The State has as many as 68,000 children living with HIV/AIDS, out of a total of 1.98 lakh people affected by the syndrome (by the end of December 2011), according to Medical Education Minister S A Ramdas. Speaking …
Western Province records the highest number (42 percent) of leprosy patients in the country. The second highest number of leprosy patients (13 percent) is recorded from the Eastern Province. North Western Province records the third highest number (11 percent) of leprosy patients, Health Ministry additional secretary Dr Palitha Mahipala said. …
People exposed to very high levels of arsenic in Chilean drinking water back in the 1950s and 60s are still showing a higher-than-normal risk of bladder cancer -- years after the arsenic problem was brought under control, a new study shows. The findings are not surprising, researchers say, since the …
SHILLONG: The World Health Organization (WHO) has sounded alarm bells after two reported outbreaks of the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 in poultry farms in Odisha and one in a state run farm in East Garo Hills in Meghalaya. The samples from the two states which were sent to the …
Karachi—Ambassador for Polio Eradication, Ms Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, has called for stepped up efforts to completely eradicate the crippling disease of Polio from the country and to once again achieve the status of Polio free country as was achieved during the government of Shaheed Mohtarma Benzir Bhutto in mid 90s. …
Even as the Centre refused to acknowledge the emergence of totally drug resistant (TDR) TB cases, the Maharashtra government has decided to introduce mandatory notification of all multi drug resistant (MDR) and extensively drug resistant (XDR) tuberculosis cases. Non-compliance of this notification will attract punishment. The Maharashtra government will also …
Denying the existence of Totally Drug Resistant (TDR) Tuberculosis, the Central team, which held its final meeting at St. George’s Hospital Complex on Wednesday claimed that the fatal form of TB, which had created panic in the country was in fact Extra Extensively Drug Resistat (XXDR) TB. The Central team …
HONG KONG: Environmentalists on Wednesday expressed disappointment at new clean-air targets for Hong Kong, as research showed pollution-related illnesses killed more than 3,000 residents a year. In the face of mounting public criticism and allegations that it is soft on polluting industry, the government on Tuesday announced its first revision …
Refuting the claims of Hinduja Hospital that claimed to have detected 12 cases of “total drug resistant” tuberculosis, the Union health ministry on Tuesday said that the isolates collected from Maharashtra have infact shown that there was not yet any case of extensive drug resistant (XDR) tuberculosis. “Preliminary results of …
Calling for urgent measures to provide sanitation facility across the country, Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh has pointed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that in addition to malnutrition another distressing national shame which India can't live with is open defecation. Mr. Ramesh, who also controls the Department of …
The RTS,S malaria vaccine may soon be licensed. Models of impact of such vaccines have mainly considered deployment via the World Health Organization's Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in areas of stable endemic transmission of Plasmodium falciparum, and have been calibrated for such settings. Their applicability to low transmission settings …
Mass public campaign a success but experts warn of need for continued vigilance Not even superstition can render this Friday the 13th unlucky for India. Today, the nation will reach a major milestone in the history of polio eradication – a year without any case of wild polio being recorded. …
24 people working in stone-crushing units die of the disease Visit the small village of Musabani in Jharkhand and you hear heart-rending stories of people involved in mining. Situated near National Highway 33 close to Jamshedpur, Musabani drew public attention recently as 24 people died due to silicosis here. The …
