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 …
This report on inventorization of e-waste in Hyderabad and Bangalore reveals that e-waste generation from household sector alone is expected to touch 1,07,886 MT in 2013 in Hyderabad and 1,30,383 MT in 2013 in Bangalore. Says that e-wastes in these two cities are going to increase due to high obsolescence …
This month marks the fifth anniversary of the entry into force of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). This Convention is unique for two reasons: it is the first international treaty negotiated under WHO
Two-year-old Khushi Kumari loves racing with her siblings and at the end of each run she gives out a hearty laugh. The only time she breaks into fits of inconsolable crying is when approached by a stranger. “She fears she would get injections again,” said her mother Dinapati Yadav of …
ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: The National Assembly standing committee on Food and Agriculture has proposed some amendments to the Agriculture Pesticides Bill, 2009 in the light of certain revision in specification of pesticides by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The committee, which met …
Noise is the permanent background score to life in bustling cities and towns. But when it exceeds a threshold, it disrupts the thought process and causes great annoyance. The World Health Organisation says it also affects health. Prolonged exposure to noise at particular levels can lead to hypertension. Other problems …
At a hearing here at the Council of Europe, a European Union human rights watchdog, the World Health Organisation (WHO) denied on Tuesday that it was unduly influenced by drug companies to exaggerate the dangers of the H1N1 flu virus. Pharmaceutical firms picked up multi-million dollar vaccination contracts when the …
The turf war between the pharmaceutical industry and Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) is set to intensify after sources close to DCGI confirmed on Monday that the drug controller will soon be approaching the Supreme Court over the issue of centralising power to grant Certificate of Pharmaceutical Products (CoPP)
Not Taking Pandemic Seriously Is To Trivialize Deaths Of Over 14,000 People: WHO New Delhi: The World Health Organization has termed allegations of creating a fake pandemic around H1N1 swine flu virus to bring economic benefit to the pharma industry as
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is planning to review its response to H1N1 once the pandemic is over. Several European countries have accused it of exaggeration. With the world nervously watching the spread of the deadly H5N1 bird flu, which only sporadically infects humans but kills over half of those …
The government, finally on Tuesday officially declared the elimination of leprosy, once a major public health problem in the country. With this declaration, Nepal has become one of the countries to achieve this universal goal. In 1999, the World Health Assembly passed a resolution to eliminate leprosy by the year …
The H1N1 flu virus is spreading most actively in North Africa, South Asia and parts of Europe, the World Health Organisation said on Friday. Raising its official global death toll from the pandemic to nearly 14,000, the WHO also said that while India
The Sindh High Court on Wednesday ordered formation of a high-powered committee to formulate means and measures to ensure regular supply of clean water to the public. A division bench comprising Justices Mushir Alam and Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi was seized with a petition filed by Advocate Islam Hussain. Citing the …
Members Of Vaccine Board Had Financial Links With Pharma Majors Rema Nagarajan | TIMES INSIGHT GROUP Even as questions are being raised about whether the swine flu scare was exaggerated to benefit pharma companies, evidence has surfaced that several members of the World Health Organisation
IN THE old days, the job of eradicating disease fell to governments and inter-governmental bodies. Then charities, often led by celebrities or entrepreneurs, joined in. Finally, in the Western world at least, governments accepted the need to pool their efforts with those of private donors, big and small. The effort …
The Institute of Applied Dermatology (IAD) at Kasargod in Kerala claims to be the first in the country to have found an integrated treatment for filariasis or elephantiasis. After a decade of research, IAD has now come out with a cost effective therapy which has helped hundreds of patients. Chief …
LAHORE, Jan 6: A draft law is being finalised to ensure provision of clean drinking water to the people in line with the standard of the World Health Organisation, according to Punjab Housing Department Secretary Irfan Ali. After enforcement the people found involved in supplying substandard water could be put …
Some 14 deaths from swine flu (H1N1) have been reported so far throughout the country, said National Institute of Health (NIH) Executive Director Dr Bargees Mazhar Qazi on Wednesday. Briefing media persons on current swine flu situation, the ED said of the total 650 suspected cases, 168 were reported H1N1 …
It is an accepted fact that the fast and skewed urbanization process that is presently taking place in the WHO South-East Asia (SEA) Region is becoming a powerful agent of change and is accompanied with economic opportunities, environmental threats and health challenges. The present paper examines primarily the process of …
This report represents the conclusions of a Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee convened to evaluate the safety of various food additives, with a view to recommending acceptable daily intakes (ADIs) and to preparing specifications for identity and purity. The first part of the report contains a general discussion of the principles …
