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 …
Stakeholders fear price cap formula will increase cost of medicines KHOMBA SINGH NEW DELHI The government’s new drug pricing policy draft is facing stiff all-round opposition over fears that it will increase prices of medicines, though manufacturers have welcomed it albeit with some changes. The draft National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Policy …
ISLAMABAD: The dwellers of capital are exposed to health hazards, as city remains shrouded by worse air pollution for the last many days because of mist on the horizon created by the suspended particulate matter. In the evening residents come across a thick layer of polluted air hovering over their …
A decade ago, plans for a metro and clean-fuel buses were hailed as New Delhi’s answer to pollution. But air in the Indian capital is as dirty as ever — partly because breakneck development has brought skyrocketing use of cars. Citywide pollution sensors routinely register levels of small airborne particles …
Pakistan Council for Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) Friday revealed that arsenic, a major cause of cancer and kidney diseases was found in seven brands of bottled water. Safe limit of arsenic in water is 10ppb, but some brands of bottled water like Nadiq Water contained 52ppb arsenic, Nation contained …
The World Health Organisation has suspended the procurement of the hepatitis B vaccine – Revac B – from the Hyderabad-based vaccine-maker Bharat Biotech International Ltd. According to an alert released by the WHO, the decision was taken after a site audit of Bharat Biotech facility here conducted in September showed …
The number of malaria cases in India may be falling but over 70 per cent of the country’s populace (around 72 crore) continues to face the risk of malaria infection and one-fourth of the population (31 crore) stares at the “highest risk” of getting infected by the disease. The World …
Hyderabad Not too long after the delisting episode of Shanta Biotech’s pentavalent hepatitis B vaccine Shan5, the World Health Organization (WHO) has now suspended the supply of hepatitis B vaccine (Revac-B+) manufactured by Bharat Biotech International (BBIL). It has also terminated the prequalification procedures for current applications for other vaccines …
Dismissing reports of the deaths of children after administration of pentavalent vaccine in Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Pakistan as unrelated, the Centre has decided to introduce this vaccine as part of the routine immunisation programme in Kerala on Wednesday. The vaccine, that will prevent children from five life-threatening diseases, will …
CUTTACK: Odisha has become the first State in the country to release an essential medicine list for children (EMLC) to ensure availability and supply of medicines in right formulations and dosages for the child population. In line with the WHO programme ‘Make medicines child-size’, the State Health Department has issued …
There is growing, but belated, concern that much of the developing world's supply of medicines—in particular, its supply of anti-infective drugs—is of poor quality. This constitutes a major public health problem because the high prevalence of poor quality drugs in developing countries results in avoidable morbidity, mortality, and drug resistance. …
The World Health Organization on Friday warned that Europe faces an explosion of measles cases next year unless it takes urgent steps to contain the viral respiratory disease. In the first nine months of 2011, 36 Western European nations reported a total of 26,000 measles cases, including more than 14,000 …
Six air-quality monitoring stations will start operation in January 2012 to keep records of the levels of air pollution in different parts of the country under the Clean Air and Sustainable Environment project. Construction work of the stations in Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, Barisal, Narayanganj and Gazipur are in full swing, …
People in Bangladesh exposed tohigh levels of arsenic in drinking water were more likely to report shortness of breath in a new study than those who drank water with safer arsenic concentrations. Though researchers didn't try todiagnose the study subjects with any specific illnesses, they noted in theEuropean Respiratory Journal …
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced over Rs198 million in grants this year as part of its ongoing support to Pakistan’s polio eradication programme and to help the Sindh government carry out its relief programmes for flood-hit people. A press release issued by the foundation on Friday said …
If the battle to eradicate polio were an action movie, this week would be the part where the good guys have racked up spectacular victories – but look like they may lose anyway. On the spectacular side, polio may be gone in India. Of the four countries where polio remained …
HIV has claimed more than 25 million lives over the past three decades while about 7 million HIV infected people all over the world are still waiting for access to the treatment of the disease. According to the latest report by the WHO, UNICEF and UNAIDS, increased access to HIV …
PESHAWAR, Nov 30: The World Health Organisation (WHO) plans to set up the acute respiratory infection (ARI) centres in 11 more districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to provide treatment to the children suffering from cold-related diseases, it is learnt. Ten such centres are operational in Dir, Battagram, Haripur, Swat, Buner, Shangla, …
The prevalence is 18 per cent in South India, says UNAIDS report India houses half of Asia's HIV patients and is way ahead of China in disease burden. It also finds a place in the list of 22 countries prioritised for preventing mother to child transmission infection, according to the …
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Wednesday announced new grants as part of its ongoing support to Pakistan's polio eradication programme and to assist the Sindh government's response to this year's floods. The grants will fund initiatives aiming to provide assistance to polio survivors as well as address the …
Thirty years after the first reported case of human infection with the HIV virus, the profile of HIV/AIDS is undergoing a transformation from a life-threatening emergency to a manageable chronic disease. New strategies and initiatives have ensured that fewer people are getting infected with the virus, and more infected people …
