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 …
Kolkata, 14 Nov: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the number of diabetics in India might leap to 80 million from the present 32 million by the year 2030. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has, however, reported that the number of 50.8 million diabetics in the country now …
A diabetes awareness walk organised to mark World Diabetes Day by Baqai Institute of Diabetology and Endocrinology on Sunday at Boat Basin, Clifton here. The purpose of the walk was to create awareness in the people at large, regarding diabetes, its prevention and management and to stress the importance and …
A Health ministry-appointed committee, looking at reasons for the closure of three state-run vaccine makers in 2008, has criticised the government for closing the companies on the basis of World Health Organisation (WHO) advice. The panel has also recommended to declare the Indian drug regulator
KARACHI: Diabetes is rapidly increasing around the world, particularly in Pakistan, where approximately 7.1 million people over 20 years old are affected by the disease, health experts said on Sunday. They were talking at a programme organised by the Diabetic Association of Pakistan (DAP) and the World Health Organisation Collaborating …
Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's largest infectious killer. The Global tuberculosis control report 2010 shows that efforts by national TB programmes to engage all care providers in controlling the disease can be particularly effective. This report also profiles the TB situation in 212 countries and territories.
Only 31 per cent of rural Indian households and schools are equipped with toilets, a WHO/Unicef survey has revealed. This is much lower than the government-compiled figure of 67 per cent. The percentage of households and schools having toilets is the sanitation level, and the WHO/Unicef report says these levels …
Present elimination strategies are based on recommendations derived during the Global Malaria Eradication Program of the 1960s. However, many countries considering elimination nowadays have high intrinsic transmission potential and, without the support of a regional campaign, have to deal with the constant threat of imported cases of the disease, emphasising …
Agricultural pesticides account for at least 250,000 suicide deaths each year, making pesticides the single most common means of suicide worldwide. The proportion of suicide deaths attributable to pesticide self-poisoning varies considerably across the world: in Europe and the Americas fewer than 5% of suicide deaths involve pesticides; in the …
The reputed medical journal, The Lancet, recently published an article on malaria-related deaths in India, which were estimated to be two lakh per year, and 13 times higher than the estimate of the World Health Organisation. WHO representatives contested these numbers and the methodology behind them, but conceded that their …
New Delhi: Malaria kills 13 times more Indians than what was estimated till date. According to the World Health Organization, the vector-borne disease kills around 15,000 Indians annually. But a new study published in British medical journal
Badly hit population: Majority of deaths occured in rural areas and in people who do not seek medical assistance. How many people die of malaria every year in India? According to the estimates of World Health Organisation (WHO), 15,000 (10,000 adults and 5,000 children) malarial deaths occur each year. But …
New Delhi, Oct. 20: New research has suggested that malaria kills about 205,000 people in India each year, amplifying suspicions that the national malaria programme and the World Health Organisation are vastly underestimating India
India continues to rank very high in the prevalence of neglected tropical diseases like dengue, rabies and soil-transmitted helminthiases, according to a report released by the World Health Organisation on Thursday.
BRITISH drugmaker Glaxo-SmithKline (GSK) will increase its capacity to make a medicine for treatment of elephantiasis at its manufacturing facility in Nasik (India) besides its South African plant, a top company executive said. GSK makes albendazole, a medicine used by 120 million people across the world, at its production units …
BHUBANESWAR: Are some tribal groups in Koraput and Mayurbhanj on the brink? The answer seems to be in affirmative if the rate of child mortality among the tribals is any indication. The child mortality rate of the tribals in 1997-98 was 44 but it has surged to over 62 per …
