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 removed three combination vaccines of Panacea Biotech from its pre-qualification list. It took the step after it found deficiencies in the quality management system followed in Panacea’s vaccine manufacturing facility in Punjab. Shipments of these vaccines – combinations of diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, Hepatitis B …
Oral vaccines have played huge part in the global battle to wipe out polio. When the WHO endorsed the goal of eradicating polio in 1988, some 350,000 children in 125 countries were being paralysed by the virus that caused the disease. That number has dropped precipitously and there were only …
The government’s ambitious mission to control diabetes has made a reluctant start. Worse, it suffers from lack of planning. The project was launched as part of the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke (NPCDCS). The first phase of the diabetes control project started …
A World Health Organisation research centre which has reviewed hundreds of studies on the health effects of mobile phone use has decided to classify the radio frequency electromagnetic fields emitted by mobile phones as “possibly carcinogenic”. This classification says more about the quality of the evidence available from studies, rather …
The region’s lone tertiary care institute, PGIMER has received a wake-up call by a study conducted by a panel of doctors. The institute score poorly according to the standards of the World Health Organisation (WHO) for tertiary care hospitals. As per a study conducted by the doctors of the department …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is working on a set of indoor air quality benchmarks in a bid to scale down health risks from combustion of solid fuels that are a source for death and disease in developing economies, especially India. WHO launched the process to set the first Indoor …
Releasing genetically modified, spermless male mosquitoes into the wild could in future help to prevent malaria transmission and reduce the chances of large outbreaks of the killer disease, British scientists said on Monday. Researchers from Imperial College London sterilized male mosquitoes by genetically modifying them to neutralize a gene required …
The recent detection of cases of avian influenza in humansunderscores the ongoing risk of human infection with new strains of influenza,says a recent ICDDR,B study. It said two human cases of infection with avian influenza A(H5N1) and one human case of infection with avian influenza A (H9N2) viruseswere detected through …
High level ministerial meeting 4 August, 2011 - The year 2012 was declared as the year of intensification for routine immunisation in the South East Asia region by the world health organisation, following a high level ministerial meeting in New Delhi on August 2. Health ministers from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri …
It is not the reason behind health problems in Kasaragod, Kerala Maintaining that Endosulfan is unlikely to cause any public health concern or hazard, the Centre has urged the Supreme Court to lift the ban imposed on its production and sale in May this year. In its response to a …
The Union Agricultural and Cooperation Department on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that there was no evidence to suggest that long-term use of endosulfan posed health hazards and various nations had banned the pesticide as a precautionary measure. The Union government submitted the counter-affidavit in response to a petition filed …
Mortality from TB since 1990 was estimated for 213 countries using established methods endorsed by WHO. Mortality trends were estimated separately for people with and without human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in accordance with the International classification of diseases. Lives saved by the DOTS/Stop TB Strategy were estimated with respect …
The office of the Comilla civil surgeon informed that it had recently detected more than 6,500 patients with arsenic contamination at 14 upazilas in Comilla. According to them, the biggest chunk of patients came from three upazilas, namely Monoharganj, Laksam and Muradnagar. Over 4,500 patients were diagnosed with arsenic in …
Around one third of the global population, or 2 billion people, have been infected with one of the viruses that causes the liver disease hepatitis, which kills about a million victims annually, the World Health Organisation said. And although most of those carrying hepatitis do not know they have it, …
Children and adolescents who use mobile phones are at no bigger risk of developing brain cancer than those who do not use them, according to a study of patients aged 7 to 19. The research, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute on July 27 and partially funded …
The World Health Organisation has issued guidelines to health department to prevent spread of diarrhoea among people in the seven affected districts of the province. “The cases of diarrhoea are being reported from some districts but situation is under control. The people in the affected areas should be educated to …
“CHOLERA most forcibly teaches us our mutual connection. Nothing shows more powerfully the duty of every man to look after the needs of others.” So said Titus Salt, a Victorian wool baron who worked to put an end to cholera in Yorkshire. It was cholera, as much as the great …
Around one crore people have been suffering from Hepatitis B and C virus in the country, experts said at a seminar yesterday. On the occasion of the World Hepatitis Day different organisations arranged programmes to make people aware of Hepatitis B and C virus, the leading cause of liver cirrhosis …
The incidents of rabies’ are increasing in Pakistan where 5,000 deaths are recorded annually while rabies cases reported from India are much higher and one person is becoming prey to the zoonotic viral disease after every 20 minutes. This was stated by speakers at a national seminar titled “The awareness …
Children and adolescents who use mobile phones are at no bigger risk of developing brain cancer than those who do not use them, according to a study of patients aged 7 to 19. The research, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute on Wednesday and partially funded by …
