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 …
Around one third of the global population, or 2 billion people, have been infected with the liver disease hepatitis which kills about a million victims annually, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday. Although most of those carrying hepatitis do not know they have it, they can unknowingly transmit …
Millions of people die each year from medical errors and infections linked to health care and going into hospital is far riskier than flying, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday. "If you were admitted to hospital tomorrow in any country... your chances of being subjected to an error in …
The Union Health Ministry has asked all state tuberculosis (TB) officers to endorse the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO), urging countries to ban
Slight increase in infant mortality rate A Keralite, on an average, has the life span of a U.S. citizen as the State ranks high in all health indicators compared to other States in the country. But the declining child sex ratio shows the State in bad light despite the fairly …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) called on Wednesday for an immediate halt to the use of blood tests to detect active tuberculosis, saying they were faulty and leave millions of people at risk. Production of the test kits, WHO officials said, was largely by Western companies which export them to …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Wednesday that millions of blood tests conducted every year to diagnose tuberculosis are unreliable and putting patients
The government will screen five crore people from across the country for hyper-tension and diabetes. Union minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said that these lifestyle diseases pose a huge health risk. Inaugurating a camp to screen slum-dwellers in Delhi for the lifestyle diseases, Mr Azad said,
As of July 15, one more country was declared free of the guinea worm: Sudan. But it was a hollow victory. That was the date Sudan split in two and South Sudan became the world
Health Minister of Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena will launch a programme named '4 by 4 by 4' to deal with four main diseases, four risk factors and four commitments today at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH). The programme organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Health …
Global production of seasonal flu vaccine is expected to double to 1.7 billion doses by 2015, with 11 new manufacturers coming on stream in developing countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on July 14. If a new influenza pandemic erupts, the world's projected 37 vaccine makers could potentially triple …
Widely used blood tests to detect tuberculosis are "dangerous" to patients because they are unreliable and can produce wrong results, the World Health Organisation warned Sunday. The UN health agency said it will issue an unprecedented recommendation against using such tests for the infectious lung disease that affects some 14 …
Five million people are at risk of cholera in drought-hit Ethiopia, where acute watery diarrhea has broken out in crowded, unsanitary conditions, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. Cholera, an acute intestinal infection, causes watery diarrhea that can quickly lead to severe dehydration and death if treatment is …
Few Hyderabadis know that they consume 0.14 to 9.50 micrograms per litre of uranium when they drink water from the River Krishna. While the amount is within the permissible limits set by the World Health Organisation, environmentalists warn that the dissolved uranium levels in water will go up once the …
JAISALMER: Young people have started looking old due to the increasing fluoride content in water in many villages of Jaisalmer and Barmer districts. This is serious as problem of hunchback and bone related diseases are on rise. Besides, people avoid marrying someone from these villages. Dozens of families in Balu …
JAIPUR: In Rajasthan, tobacco chewing is on the rise. It has increased by 0.1% as compared to smoking. In the state, around 18.9% of the total population chews tobacco while 18.8% population smokes. The figures were released by the World Health Organization last week. Asthma and tobacco specialist Dr Virendra …
The United Nations said on Tuesday it was struggling to keep up with an exodus of hungry Somali refugees and many emaciated children were dying of malnutrition along the way or after arriving in neighboring countries. More than 11 million people in the Horn of Africa now need assistance to …
A new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) has suggested that the tobacco epidemic is likely to kill nearly six million people this year. As per the report, while more than five million of them will be users or ex-users of smoked and smokeless tobacco, more than 600,000 will …
India has played a key role in drawing up the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control that was initiated by the World Health Organisation and the country has ratified it. Ironically, the government’s Indian Tobacco Board is expected to promote Indian varieties of tobacco and the development of the tobacco industry. …
