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 …
AWAY from the conference rooms of climate talks, developed countries have begun arm-twisting developing countries to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. Sasan, a coal-based project of Reliance Power, almost lost out on funding from a US-based lending agency (See: US bank uses carbon smokescreen). Earlier in the year, power …
THE Union health ministry is pushing for the inclusion of the pentavalent vaccine in the universal immunization programme (UIP) for children. In April, the government tried to convince the Delhi High Court to clear the vaccine by submitting a World Health Organization (WHO) report that said there was no problem …
After having got its first swine flu vaccine, India is all set to introduce its first influenza shot this year. Probably among a few countries in the world which did not have a vaccine against general influenza, India will have a trivalent vaccine against flu by October, this year. Strains …
A team of the Government of India, led by Health Secretary Sujata Rao, monitored the progress work at the Central Research Institute, Kasauli, for the upcoming infrastructure to manufacture DPT vaccine according to the norms prescribed by World Health Organsiation (WHO). Rao was at CRI on Saturday to review the …
Mumbai, 4 JULY: President Pratibha Patil today called upon the medical community to evolve a comprehensive strategy to tackle the emerging threat of lifestyle diseases and provide health care to the rural areas. Inaugurating the 1,500-bed Seven Hills Hospital, billed as the largest private sector health care facility in Asia, …
The WHO Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard has been published since 1975, has been revised and reissued every few years and has gained wide acceptance. This document sets out a classification system to distinguish between the more and the less hazardous forms of selected pesticides based (mainly) on acute …
The story of how pharmaceutical companies influenced scientists and official agencies like the World Health Organization (WHO) in the recent swine flu scare and the saga of the undeclared conflicts of interests of members of the WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts has set off alarm bells around the world. …
OPERATION Smallpox Zero was launched in India in 1975. Around this time, a WHO official has been quoted saying he would “eat a tyre off a jeep” if smallpox was eradicated in India. D A Henderson, the programme’s director, is said to have sent him a jeep tyre. Smallpox was …
Mumbai A state-run corporation has got World Health Organisation (WHO) recognition for its bivalent polio vaccine. The Parel-based Haffkine Biopharmaceuticals Corporation Limited (HBPCL) supplied 10 million doses last week as its first consignment to the Centre and UNICEF for distribution under the National Polio Survelliance Programme. HBPCL was formed by …
In 2009, WHO brought together 24 experts to assess schemes and innovative proposals that could encourage much-needed research and development into drugs for neglected diseases. The final report by the Expert Working Group (EWG) was due to be rubber-stamped at the 63rd World Health Assembly, held in Geneva, Switzerland, from …
In an encouraging sign in the fight against polio, the endemic states of UP and Bihar have not reported any poliovirus type-1 cases concurrently for more than six months. However, India has been again blamed for exporting the virus to
A year after the World Health Organisation declared an Influenza A(H1N1) pandemic, a joint investigation by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has raised
Only 5 Years Left To Meet The Target Of Millennium Development Goals At the beginning of this millennium in year 2000, 189 countries and 23 international health agencies had pledged to reduce child under-5 mortality by two-thirds and maternal mortality by three-fourths by 2015. These were called the Millennium Development …
Kirtika Suneja / Roorkee (uttar Pradesh) June 05, 2010, 0:06 IST It's a bit of an obvious thing to do, but Attero Recycling has its plant in a green building. About 10 kilometres from Roorkee on the road to Dehradun, it is difficult to miss. As we reach the gates, …
India is all set to launch a trivalent vaccine for seasonal flu by this year-end, with major pharmaceutical companies trying to undertake its production after obtaining strains from the World Health Organisation (WHO) that are expected to surface in the country this winter.
JONATHAN LYNN GENEVA The WHO emergency committee, composed of 15 external advisers, said it remained critical for countries to maintain vigilance concerning the pandemic The H1N1 pandem June 3: The H1N1 pandemic is not yet over although its most intense activity has passed in many parts of the world, the …
Hyderabad, June 1: The Core Committee on Vaccines has finally decided that children will be given two doses of measles vaccine to protect them from the infectious disease. Though the World Health Organisation (WHO) has been insisting on two doses for some time, the Central government had, till date, preferred …
