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 …
In a move that will help bring down healthcare costs, the Union Health Ministry has directed central government-run hospitals to prescribe only generic drugs from now on.
With several efforts underway to increase the local production of drugs in developing countries, Tatum Anderson assesses the pros and cons of manufacturing medicines in Africa.
After a major polio outbreak in 2006, it is for the first time that India has been able to stop the spread of polio virus for over seven weeks with not a single wild polio virus (WPV) case being reported from any part of the country till this Friday. The …
In every country, rich or poor, the story is the same. There are not enough nurses. The developed world fills its vacancies by enticing nurses from other countries, while developing countries are unable to compete with better pay, better professional development and the lure of excitement offered elsewhere.
The policy of levying charges on people seeking healthcare, which requires people to pay before receiving care, has been a contentious issue among health policy-makers and people working in the health sector. The impact of user charges on the health of a nation merits serious consideration.
140,000 excess deaths due to global warming in 2004 70,000 excess deaths recorded in Europe in the heat wave of summer 2003. Extreme high temperatures can cause deaths from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, particularly among the elderly 1.2 million deaths every year is caused by urban air pollution. High temperatures …
Ujjain: More than 8,000 malnourished children have been identified in this district. ''Special monitoring of such children is underway through training conventions for ward-level field officials via anganwadis. Five nutrition rehabilitation centres are being run,'' Women and Child Development Officer Sanjay Sisodia said today. As per the World Health Organisation's …
An African initiative to improve the regulation of clinical trials on the continent has launched a new strategy to safeguard children involved in such research. Adele Baleta reports from Cape Town.
As the Icelandic volcano continues to spew ash across much of Europe, questions are circulating about whether the fine airborne particles of rock and glass pose health or environmental risks. The consensus of The World Health Organization and British health groups is that, so far, the potential risks are minimal …
The stench of a report released last week by the United Nations University's Institute for Water, Environment and Health in New York City brought the world's attention to the fact that India's vast open spaces are a latrine for half the population. To drive home the point Zafar Adeel, director …
In May, 2010, the World Health Assembly (WHA) is expected to endorse the aggressive new strategy of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) to stop polio transmission. Earlier this year, the Executive Board of the WHA expressed strong support for finishing the job of polio eradication. They were encouraged by …
The World Health Organisation admitted that the global swine flu scare was unnecessarily exaggerated as alleged by the international community. Replying to the query whether swine flu was unnecessarily exaggerated, regional director of the WHO, Dr Samlee Pilanbangchang said,
The ongoing con struction in the wake of the Commonwealth Games 2010 would effect the general health of Delhiites, warned the World Health Organisation.
A TOP official of the World Health Organization on Tu esday admitted that the global swine flu scare was unnecessarily exaggerated, an allegation the international body faced when the killer disease claimed thousands of lives in several countries including India.
Surinder Sud / New Delhi April 05, 2010, 0:29 IST Climate change has begun to affect human health, leading to a rise in cases related to stomach ailments and vector-borne diseases like malaria and dengue. This has been indicated in a report in the recent bulletin of the World Health …
