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 (WHO) on Wednesday pledged to partner with Kenya’s Ministry of Health to help contain the highly infectious and mosquito-borne Chikungunya disease in the coastal city of Mombasa. WHO said a partnership with the ministry of health and Mombasa county government will strengthen monitoring, diagnosis and treatment …
Brazil's south-eastern state of Minas Gerais has declared a public health emergency following a deadly outbreak of yellow fever. At least 15 people have died there since December. Many areas, including the state capital Belo Horizonte, have been affected. A mass vaccination programme is in place in three southern states. …
NEW DELHI: Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) is going to commission a study based on data from government hospitals across the country to get an accurate picture of health impact of air pollution. Reacting to a new study, Burden of Disease Attributable to Major Air Pollution Sources in India, by …
As Rwandans usher into the new year of 2018, the ministry of environment through Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) has devised new measures while strengthen the existing ones to ensure Rwandans breath clean air. REMA commissioned a new baseline air quality study that was carried out between August and December …
Better technology may not end the pollution crisis. Rather, it would allow one to monitor even finer particles which would become new health threats. While currently particle effluents in air -- PM10 and PM2.5, or particles with diameter less than 10 and 2.5 micrometers -- are the cause of major …
Exposure to household burning emissions and coal combustion were the main reasons behind 75 per cent of air pollution-related deaths in India in 2015 which came chiefly from rural areas, reveals a report. The report, by experts from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)- Bombay and the US-based Health Effects …
KOLKATA: Pollutants hung heavy in the ambient air of the city and refused to dissipate even in the evening when the ambient air tends to get cleaner. Throughout Sunday, according to US Co nsulate air-quality monitoring station, the air was hazardous (301-500 g/m3) with the PM2.5 count of city's air …
HYDERABAD: Proceeding along the road behind the High Court towards Afzalgunj from City College, one can't help but despair at the sorry state of the mighty river Musi. The river, once trademark of Hyderabad for centuries with its pristine and crystal clear waters is now in decline, frothing at the …
Govt yet to conduct regular audits in state After ignoring the issue for years, the state government has woken up to the fact that climate change is adversely affecting the health of people and creating “serious health vulnerabilities” in Jammu and Kashmir. However, despite threat, the state is yet to …
Two elderly individuals from Hitech City reported with H1N1 infection After a lull of over a month, swine flu virus has reared its head again, infecting two elderly individuals from the city. Public health officials portend more infections that may continue well into summer. A 65-year-old and a 69-year-old, unrelated …
GUWAHATI: The city will from Tuesday host a two-day workshop for coming up with an action plan to improve air quality. "Guwahati is among the few cities selected across India and the first in the northeast to take up the air action plan initiative. It will allow a wider discussion …
PATNA: Dermatologists on Sunday stressed on the need to create awareness about leprosy and disintegrate it from other public health programmes. In 2005, India had officially declared to have eliminated leprosy when new cases fell to less than one per 10,000 population. But as per WHO's Global Health Observatory data …
The new vaccine was found to have given a longer immunity from typhoid than older vaccines and it required fewer doses for childhood immunisation. Bharat Biotech Ltd (BBL), a Hyderabad-based vaccine maker, on Wednesday, said that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has pre-qualified its typhoid conjugate vaccine. The new vaccine …
LUCKNOW: In a joint research, scientists of biotechnology department of APJ Kalam Technical University and Jazan University, Saudi Arabia, have identified the gene which increases the risk of tuberculosis, its recurrence and development of drug resistance. In a research lasting over four years, scientists studied more than 2,000 international researches …
On disease prevention and control, the bloc is addressing key strategic interventions in establishing a regional information exchange system for communicable and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and a regional reference public health laboratory and strengthening national public health laboratories. The Head of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs, Mr Owora Othieno said …
BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s smog-prone capital Beijing met its air quality targets last year following a crackdown on polluters and a sustained period of favorable weather, the local environmental agency said in a statement on Wednesday. Cranes are seen on top of a skyscraper that is under construction in Beijing, …
AHMEDABAD: While civic authorities claim having intensified efforts to curb vector-borne diseases, data of AMC's health department shows that in 2017 alone, 9,277 people in the city suffered from malaria. These are only conservative estimates and the actual numbers may be higher because AMC only seeks data from civic body-run …
SMOKING is a scourge. It is the leading preventable cause of cancer and kills over 7m people annually, mostly in low- and middle-income countries. In America, where it is linked to one death in five, it is estimated to cost more than $300bn a year in medical bills and lost …
NEW DELHI: At least half of the world's population cannot obtain essential health services and each year about 100 million people, including in India, are being pushed into poverty because they have to pay for healthcare out of their own pockets. 'Tracking Universal Health Coverage: 2017 Global Monitoring Report', a …
In India an estimated 100 crore people have no health cover. Data from the National Health Profile, released in April, show that only 27 per cent Indians have health cover A report released by the World Health Organisation and the World Bank has shown that at least half of the …
