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 …
Many experts feel that injectable vaccine should be introduced during the transition phase With oral vaccines, India appears to have achieved what was once thought a Herculean task — decisively breaking the circulation of wild polio viruses that paralysed countless children. But the use of oral vaccines, which contain live …
Jaipur: Malnutrition among children in Rajasthan has taken ominous proportions. The Hungama (Hunger and Malnutrition) survey carried out recently by Naandi Foundation indicates that the situation in many districts has worsened when compared to what it was about a decade back. The Hungama Survey, released on Tuesday by Prime Minister …
The United Nations and leading world organizations celebrated India’s first polio free year and termed it as a major milestone in their fight against this dreaded disease. The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan, termed it as the “greatest public health achievement” of India, the Bill Gates, of Bill …
The top US health official administered polio vaccination drops to children in New Delhi on Friday as India marked one year since its last case of the crippling disease. The milestone is a major victory in the global effort to eradicate polio. If no previously undisclosed cases are uncovered in …
On Friday, India will reach a major milestone in the battle against polio. January 13 will mark a year without a fresh case of polio in the country. Once all samples collected till January 12 have been cleared, India will be off the World Health Organisation’s list of polio-endemic countries, …
Authorities in China's notoriously smoggy capital have announced that they will start publishing more accurate data on air pollution this month, bowing unexpectedly to a social-media campaign driven by the U.S. Embassy publishing its own data via Twitter. A woman walks past the China Central Television building in December as …
The strain of bird flu that killed a Chinese bus driver won't spread to other people, a health agency said on Monday. The Shenzhen Disease Control Center appealed for calm while officials investigated how the man contracted the H5N1 strain of the virus. Chinese bus driver with bird flu dies …
The World Health Organization issued a stern warning on Friday to scientists who have engineered a highly pathogenic form of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, saying their work carries significant risks and must be tightly controlled. The United Nations health body said it was "deeply concerned about the potential …
Farmers and the food industry are asking the Obama administration to ease coming federal guidance that will advise consumers to minimize their intake of dioxins, chemicals that may be harmful at certain levels. The standards would, for the first time, set a limit on how much dioxin Americans can be …
Health authorities in Hong Kong are urging residents to take steps to ensure personal hygiene, and the city remains on high alert following the bird-flu-related death of a man in mainland China. Renewed fears in Hong Kong came as Chinese authorities said preliminary tests showed the Shenzhen man, who died …
Years after the World Heath Organisation (WHO) recognised asbestos as one of the most significant occupational carcinogens (cancer-causing agents) and declared the need to eliminate its use, the Centre has commissioned a study to assess its environmental and health hazard in India. In 2006, the WHO had called for preventing …
Years after the World Heath Organisation (WHO) recognised asbestos as one of the most significant occupational carcinogens (cancer-causing agents) and declared the need to eliminate its use, the Centre has commissioned a study to assess its environmental and health hazard in India. In 2006, the WHO had called for preventing …
This paper is an overview of the issues surrounding India’s water scarcity, and also comparison of clean water standards between developing and developed nations.
Gonorrhoea is a major public health challenge today, due to the high incidence of infections accompanied by a dwindling number of treatment options. The objective of this global action plan is to control the spread and minimize the impact of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Neisseria gonorrhoeae (N. gonorrhoeae). This document …
Malaria deaths have fallen by more than 25 percent in the last decade, thanks to a coordinated attack on the disease, but that progress remains fragile, the World Health Organization announced this month. About 655,000 victims — mostly children — died of malaria in 2010, the report estimated. A decade …
The Awami League-led government is yet to fulfil its electoral pledge of supplying pure drinking water to the entire population by 2011, failing even to provide safe drinking water to all the citizens of the capital city. In its election manifesto, the AL said, ‘The arsenic problem will be tackled …
Health workers here began slaughtering more than 17,000 chickens on Wednesday after a carcass infected with bird flu was found at a poultry market, government officials said. It was the first large-scale culling in three years. The cull was part of a series of precautionary steps being taken after the …
Although modern medicine is established in Asia, traditional medicine also plays a big role in people's healthcare — and is gaining in popularity in other countries too.
NEW DELHI, 20 DEC: A World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendation to ban use of rapid test kits used to detect tuberculosis in developing countries notwithstanding, there is rampant use of this kit in India that gives “unacceptable levels of wrong results”. A recent study conducted by Indian Council of Medical …
