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 …
London: Cola lovers beware. A new study claims that having a litre or more of cold drinks daily adversely affects male fertility and decreases the sperm count by almost 30%.
This is the recent assessment by CAI-Asia of status and challenges of air quality management in Asia. Provides an overview of status of air quality and the ambient air quality standards adopted by developing Asian countries. Air Quality in Asia: Status and Trends, 2010 edition is the most recent version …
March 30: Ineffective garbage management by Warangal Municipal Corporation (WMC) is adversely affecting the quality of drinking water in a few places as harmful chemicals like chromium and lead are said to have been found in excess quantity well above World Health Organisation (WHO) specifications. In a recent study done …
Polio case in slum had govt in a tizzy Alarmed by the detection of poliomyelitis, commonly known as polio virus, in an infant here last week, the emergency three-day special pulse polio campaign launched in five districts of the Jammu division ended this afternoon. Over four lakh children in the …
If numbers are to be believed, the incidence of deadly H1N1 virus in India seems to be dropping. Health Ministry statistics have lately shown a marked fall in the number of swine flu deaths and infections in India. India reported only 12 cases of H1N1 virus on March 20 (maximum …
K.S. Jacob Indian reality calls for regional research, local solutions and national perspectives rather than subservience to international approaches, which do not prioritise India's needs. Improved public health standards and the antibiotic revolution resulted in the conquering of infectious disease in the western world. Although the HIV/AIDS epidemic did dent …
Almost half of the estimated 4,40,000 cases of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in 2008 were reported from India and China, a World Health Organisation (WHO) report has revealed.
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) and Unicef have suspended the use and purchase of Shan5 vaccine from Sanofi Aventis-owned Shantha Biotechnics, pending a quality investigation that threatens a three-year contract worth $350 million. The investigation follows complaints from Colombia, Nepal and Comoros
FOR ENVIRONMENT: Registrar of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University P. Subbian speaking at a training programme on pesticide management at the university in Coimbatore. COIMBATORE: According to the World Health Organisation, one million human pesticide poisoning cases are reported all over the world with one-third of these occurring in farm workers. …
Contrary to the guidelines for the control of tuberculosis by the World Health Organisation in relation to air travel, a recent study published in the medical journal, The Lancet, has reported there is little risk of tuberculosis transmission through air travel. According to The Lancet, the resources used in tracing …
Most discussions about using international institutions to address climate change focus narrowly on the work of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. However, many other international institutions also have a significant role to play in mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change. This paper examines the …
The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which affect the very poor, pose a major public health problem in the South-East Asia Region of the World Health Organization (WHO). Although more than a dozen NTDs affect the region, over the past five years four of them in particular
The purpose of this document is to provide comprehensible, global, evidence based guidelines to help formulate policies and protocols for the treatment of malaria. Information is presented on the treatment of: uncomplicated malaria, including disease in special groups (young children, pregnant women, people who are HIV-positive, travellers from non-malaria endemic …
New Delhi: Even as several countries including India have started to question the seriousness of the H1N1 swine pandemic, the World Health Organisation has now come out with a new warning
Director of Public Health S. Elango on Monday said clarifications were needed on the bio-safety of Genetically Modified (GM) mosquitoes being developed by researchers globally to combat vector-borne diseases such as malaria, chikungunya and dengue. He said here that public health administrators and governments could not take any chances with …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended on Thursday that the pandemic A(H1N1) virus should be used for making seasonal influenza vaccines in the northern hemisphere. Besides the pandemic A(H1N1) virus, the A(H3N2) virus and the influenza B virus should also be included in making influenza vaccines in the 2010
On january 15, the World Health Organization (who) said it would review itself to see if international health regulations were followed while recommending purchase of H1N1 influenza vaccines to member countries. This follows after a report in the Danish news daily, Information, alleged that health advisers of who are on …
