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 …
S. Viswanathan Hardly five years ago, when multi-discipline hospitals started mushrooming in cities across the country, thanks to liberal support from the governments under the policy of privatisation and liberalisation, rising India celebrated their arrival. Many believed their arrival was a landmark in the history of health care in India. …
The Rabies Vaccine Production Laboratory of the Animal Health Directorate looks set to make Nepal self-dependent in the rabies vaccine for humans as well as animals. It has completed production of the ninth batch of the vaccine. It will be sent to public hospitals for human trials after receiving approval …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Thursday termed international medical journal Lancet's report on malaria deaths in the state as ridiculous. I need to describe the Lancet report as ridiculous in order to dispel misunderstanding among the people, health and family welfare minister Prasanna Acharya said while replying an adjournment motion …
Bal Krishan Keayla, a key figure in the National Working Group on Patent Law and an indefatigable campaigner for two decades against the GATT/WTO agreement on intellectual property, died on 27 November. A colleague in the working group reminisces.
Malaria is in retreat in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa after a huge effort in the last two years to get bed nets and indoor spraying into areas where the disease is endemic, but the gains are fragile, according to the World Health Organisation. Malaria cases or hospital admissions and …
Nine years ago, a small group of infectious-disease experts gambled on an unorthodox strategy to make a much-needed—and affordable—vaccine for Africa. Last Monday in Burkina Faso, it paid off in spades with the kickoff of a massive campaign to immunize 20 million people in three African countries against deadly meningococcal …
Only 26,000 km of road is fit for traffic NHs account for 41% of accident fatalities Frequent rain, potholes create more accidents KOCHI: Over 2,000 out of the 4,000 who meet with accidents in a year in Kerala lose their lives. Another 50,000 sustain injuries. Among the victims, the majority …
A rarely-used system intended to help poor countries import generic versions of patent-protected drugs was the main focus of discussions at the October session of the TRIPS Council. Developing countries also raised serious concerns over the Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
The objective of this study was to assess drug donations in terms of their adherence to the drug donation guidelines put forth by the World Health Organization (WHO).
In May 2007, resolution WHA60.1 of the World Health Assembly requested the Director‐General of the World Health Organization (WHO) to undertake a major review, in 2010, of the state of smallpox research and additional related research needed for public health purposes. This was undertaken so that the sixty‐fourth World Health …
WHO Study Finds That 52.3% Indians Exposed To SHS At Home, 29% At Public Places Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: Second-hand smoke (SHS) is killing six lakh annually, including 1.65 lakh children before they reach their fifth birthday. A study by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 192 countries
Air pollution in major cities in Asia exceeds the World Health Organisation's (WHO) air quality guidelines and toxic cocktails result in more than 530,000 premature deaths a year, according to a new report issued on Tuesday. Issued by the U.S.-based Health Effects Institute, the study found that elderly people with …
The obesity epidemic is spreading to low-income and middle-income countries as a result of new dietary habits and sedentary ways of life, fuelling chronic diseases and premature mortality. In this report we present an assessment of public health strategies designed to tackle behavioural risk factors for chronic diseases that are …
After evidence that India is lagging behind on the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing Infant Mortality Rate by 2015, it now turns out that it is faltering on the child survival MDG as well. The first-ever report tracking global progress against pneumonia, the leading killer of children under five …
Report reveals the need to reach target levels of coverage for life-saving interventions India has the highest number of pneumonia-related deaths in the world Only three countries reported coverage above the target level of 90 per cent for any vaccine NEW DELHI: Pneumonia, which is the world's leading infectious killer …
Already marred by violence, tribals from the interior villages of Dantewada are facing a new challenge. A number of people last month died of or fell a victim to a water-borne disease. Though the state government maintains it is DVD (diarrhoea-vomiting-dysentry), experts suspect it to be as severe as cholera. …
