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 …
India is strangely reluctant to ban this pesticide despite mounting evidence of its collateral damage As the stage is set for the crucial meeting of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP), a global regime to protect human health and the environment from dangerous chemicals, to be held in …
Europe, especially France, has been hit by a major outbreak of measles, which the UN health agency is blaming on the failure to vaccinate all children. The World Health Organisation said Thursday that France had 4,937 reported cases of measles between January and March
The High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday observed that it was not right to make public comments on the endosulfan ban. Four companies which have challenged the ban had contended that public comments were having an adverse effect. The court held that the matter was sub judice and nothing could …
New Delhi: Five years after India and Indonesia shook the world by refusing to share its H5N1 bird flu virus with the WHO until benefits such as access to cheap vaccines made from these are guaranteed, a landmark agreement has finally been reached. After weeks of negotiations, a working-group meeting …
Tobacco is a silent killer and the single largest cause of preventable disease including cancer, heart attacks, chronic obstructive lung disease and asthma. According to World Health Organisation, tobacco killed 100 million people in the 20th Century and will kill a billion people (ten times more) in the 21st. Deaths …
The objective of the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework is to improve pandemic influenza preparedness and response, and strengthen the protection against the pandemic influenza by improving and strengthening the WHO global influenza surveillance and response system ("WHO GISRS"), with the objective of a fair, transparent, equitable, efficient, effective system for, …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday said it will assist India in its study to check the presence of multi-drug resistant superbug and whether it is a health hazard.
New Delhi: The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has told the state government that it is not equipped to test water samples for the NDM1 gene that makes normal bacteria resistant to all known antibiotics. The confession was made when Delhi Jal Board officials were asked to explain their sample collection …
New Delhi: The government is getting serious about curbing irrational use of antibiotics. The Union health ministry has formalized a National Policy for Containment of Antibiotic Resistance which is awaiting health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad
Only a global effort to stop misuse of antibiotics will save mankind from drug-resistant microbes We have been hearing a lot about superbugs in recent years for both right and wrong reasons. Right, because these bugs are difficult to treat with antibiotics, the wonder drugs of modern medicine, and, therefore, …
The framework for antibiotic discovery, development and approval is broken — only four new classes of antibiotics have been launched in the past 40 years. The World Health Organization forecasts a disaster due to the rapid, unchecked increase in antimicrobial resistance and has just announced a policy to combat its …
EXPERTS have called for a complete ban on smokeless tobacco products or at least an increase in tax to bring down consumption. Many such recommendations made at a two-day national consultation that ends on Tuesday will be sent to the government. According to a recent survey, khaini is the most …
Smokeless tobacco products being marketed in India contain 3095 chemical components with serious implications for human health. About 28 of these components are proven carcinogens, areca nut the most commonly used of all. What
The Centre has come out with the first national health research policy to guide the health research agenda for public good and to determine how funds can be spent to improve public health. In the absence of a strong in-house medical research agenda, the government often seeks help from international …
Calcutta, March 27: Bengal confronts today what India almost banished yesterday. The state has become the focal point of international polio-control efforts after it reported the country
