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 …
The World Health Organization dramatically cut its estimate on Thursday of how many people are infected with malaria every year, attributing the revision to changes in research methods. But the report kept the number of people who died fronMhe disease broadly the same. The United Nations agency said 247 million …
New Delhi, September 18 Malaria has infected millions of people worldwide, with a large number of cases being reported from India alone, says the latest report of the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Joe C Mathew / New Delhi September 18, 2008, 0:04 IST The World Health Organization (WHO) has not approved any new vaccine from India this year as the Indian regulatory system, which gives manufacturing licences for domestic vaccines, has failed to meet its quality benchmarks. Companies like Shanta Biotech, Panacea …
Considering western UP to be a peculiar case in polio eradication, the WHO and Indian Council of Medical Research will carry out a study to ascertain the level of immunity among the children against the virus following the immunisation programme over the last one year. Experts are of the opinion …
The scope of this paper is safe and sustainable sanitation in agriculture. Specifically, the idea of the paper is to find out the existing regulations and guidelines concerning a sustainable wastewater management in the European Union (EU), regarding small-scale on-site wastewater management, and particularly regarding the safe reuse of the …
61st meeting of the WHO regional committee for South-East Asia now on in Delhi NEW DELHI: Health Ministers from South-East Asian countries and World Health Organisation experts have called for stricter laws, improved implementation of these laws and increased taxes to help reduce tobacco abuse in the region. They are …
Aarti Dhar Right now tobacco epidemic is clustered in the poorest of the poor and this applies to India also, says Douglas Bettcher, Director, Tobacco Free Initiative. Douglas Bettcher
Rema Nagarajan | TIG If a disease can be treated for Rs 10, why would you spend Rs 12,000 for it? That is the question being raised by some doctors on a move to make a vaccine against pneumonia part of the immunisation programme. According to WHO protocol, pneumonia in …
THOSE who keep in touch with Hollywood science-fiction movies know about the film "Star Wars," and worry about the earth being attacked by aliens. By analysing different wars over the last two decades, many political analysts came to a consensus that they were for establishing control over valuable natural resources …
M Govinda Rao / New Delhi September 02, 2008, 0:09 IST The most important thing is to ban all forms of tobacco consumption in public places. By now, it is well established that tobacco is the single-most important contributor to non-communicable diseases in India. India has the second-largest number of …
The Health service in Sri Lanka is considerably better than in Russia despite considerably higher incomes in Russia than Sri Lanka, said Sir Michael Marmott, Professor Epidemiology and Public Health who chaired the World Health Organization's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. He was speaking at the launch of …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is calling for greater social equality as a way of evening out differences in health, both between different countries and within them. A report, drawn up by the WHO's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, says that although a country's wealth is an important …
BY YOJNA GUSAI NEW DELHI Perturbed over repeated complaints of higher metal contents in ayurvedic and unani products by health regulatory agencies of countries like the UK, US, Canada and Singapore, the Union health ministry is now working on bringing out a national policy on the issue. Health ministry is …
After remaining polio-free for 19 months, Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh has reported a case of P1 polio, sending alarm bells ringing in the health department. Christian woman burnt to death by rampaging VHP mobs in OrissaLeft still a part of DPA: KarunanidhiTirupati readies for Chiranjeevi partyProbe record says Atram …
Doctors will soon get a template for treatment ... You may call it a prescription of sorts for doctors. The Union ministry of health and family welfare has begun drafting a set of standard treatment guidelines (STG) at the national level in an attempt to bring uniformity in medical care …
About 5.4 million people die every year across the globe due to tobacco consumption and the number will go over 8 million by 2030 if immediate steps are not taken, the World Health Organisation (WHO) report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2008 said yesterday. At the launching ceremony of the …
IN countries like India where universal access to safe drinking-water at an acceptable level of service has not been achieved, the country's national drinking water policy should refer to "expressed targets for increasing access', according to the World Health Organisation's Guidelines for Drinking Water Safety. Such policy statements should be …
