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 …
HC Extends Stay, Tells Govt To Set Up Panel On Health Risk New Delhi: Noting that cellphones were no more a luxury but a part of everyday existence, the Delhi high court on Monday extended the interim stay on sealing of mobile towers till mid-September. It also directed the government …
BHUBANESWAR: While tobacco use continues to predominate global health concerns, growing percentage of women among the consuming population has added to the alarm. They have become targets for the tobacco companies and industries, which have started to design strategies and products like lite, slim and flavoured to attract women. Some …
The quality of drinking-water is a powerful environmental determinant of health. Drinking-water quality management has been a key pillar of primary prevention for over one-and-a-half centuries and it continues to be the foundation for the prevention and control of waterborne diseases. WHO produces international norms on water quality and human …
The latest Global Youth Tobacco Survey (2009) by the World Health Organisation (WHO), in consultation with the Government of India, suggests that more than 50 per cent of the people who bought cigarettes from stores were not refused despite the country
As concerns about increasing environmental damage rage, organizations are coming out with different plans to raise awareness on the issue as World Environment Day, which falls on June 5, approaches. Khushi Centre for Rehabilitation and Research (KCRR), a non-profit group working in the fields of health and holistic and sustainable …
MUMBAI: The state government will request the union government to allow relaxation of silence zone norms for 15 days in a year in every district. In an affidavit filed before the Bombay high court on Wednesday in the Shivaji Park silence zone case, the state government has said that it …
Visakhapatnam, May 19: Noted lawyer and environmentalist, Mr S. Niroop, has suggested that an epidemiology test should be conducted in the city to test the intensity of the pollution that has been affecting the people. The test is conducted by the World Health Organisation on the request of the state …
Despite decades of research into drugs and vaccines for neglected diseases such as tuberculosis and dengue fever, few products have made it through clinical development and into the hands of the millions who desperately need them. One of the biggest hurdles is the sheer expense of running clinical trials, compared …
Terming Bangladesh as a model in low- cost health development, Director General (DG) of World Health Organisation (WHO) Dr Margaret Chann on Wednesday said that other countries should follow it. He said this while addressing the 63rd session of WHO in Geneva, Switzerland, according to an email received here yesterday. …
Ian Sample Publication of a landmark study into mobile phones and brain cancer was delayed for years because scientists failed to agree on its findings and whether to issue a warning about excessive use of the devices, the Guardian has learned. The World Health Organisation's Interphone report was due to …
Mobile phone (cell phone) use is increasing extraordinarily rapidly worldwide. There are now 4.6 billion mobile phone subscribers worldwide. In many low and middle-income countries use of cell phones has made communications possible in vast areas lacking cable connections. Increasingly, in high-income countries, cell phones have replaced
TALKING UP A STORM WHO Finds Using Mobiles For Over 30 Mins Daily Could Raise Tumour Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: Talking for too long on a mobile phone every day, half an hour or more, could increase the risk of brain cancer. However, a study on cellphone use …
The rapid increase in mobile telephone use has generated concern about possible health risks related to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields from this technology. An interview-based case Original Source
In 2006 seven foreign ministers from Brazil, France, Indonesia, Norway, Senegal, South Africa, and Thailand initiated a dialogue on the inter-linkages between health and foreign policy, with a focus on how health matters to foreign policy and whether foreign policy can make a difference to health. What brought the ministers …
Pune Two Thousand children have been involved in a WHO project at KEM Hospital to develop an intra-nasal vaccine that can be administered through a nebulizer. After the success of the Phase 1 clinical trial, Serum Institute of India Limited and National Institute of Virology (NIV) are working on the …
