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 …
Doctors say even lungs of non-smokers in the city showing signs of toxic deposits due to air pollution What is the constantly high air pollution levels in the Capital doing to your health? More specifically your lungs? If images from the medical records of patients in the city are any …
LONDON (Reuters) - British travellers could face higher train fares and disruption to services if controversial weedkiller glyphosate is banned, a study said on Tuesday, in a move that could cost the rail industry millions of pounds each year. The European Parliament called for the weedkiller to be phased out …
STRASBOURG (Reuters) - The European Parliament called on Tuesday for weedkiller glyphosate to be phased out in the next five years, prompting the European Commission to drop its proposal for a 10 year license extension. Europe has been debating the use of the herbicide for more than two years and …
A report has unveiled how tobacco companies entice Nigerian school children.Titled, ‘Big Tobacco Tiny Targets’, it samples 221 schools in cities like Ibadan, Kaduna, Enugu, Lafia and Lagos and concludes evidence shows a pattern in sale of tobacco products within 100 metres of school environments, linking the trend to leading …
Africa is on the verge of eradicating polio if the current momentum is sustained through improved surveillance, vaccination and public awareness, a WHO official said on Tuesday. WHO Regional Director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti said the majority of African countries are likely to be declared polio free by 2019 if …
A new vaccine that could prevent up to nine-in-10 cases of typhoid fever has been recommended by the World Health Organization. Experts say it could have a "huge impact" on the 22 million cases, and 220,000 deaths, from typhoid each year. Crucially it works in children, who are at high-risk …
NEW DELHI: Delhi has registered 650 fresh cases of dengue in the past one week taking the total number of confirmed cases this year to 5,870. The death toll due to the disease, as per the latest report by municipal corporations, stands at three. No new deaths have been recorded, …
CHENNAI: The fight against dengue "has to be a people's movement", and school children need to get involved, said Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Director-General of the Indian Council of Medical Research, who was recently appointed the World Health Organisation's (WHO) deputy director general, programmes. Dr Swaminathan is well-known for her research …
Traffic fatalities in Africa remain the highest in the world by far when compared with those of other continents, and amount to some 300,000 lost lives per year, according to data presented at Africa Road Safety 2017 in Cape Town on Monday. The two-day seminar, sponsored by Global Road Safety …
The latest Global Burden of Disease study lists ailments that are triggering most deaths and disabilities in India. DNA examines what all has changed over the past decades, and underlines that the government must scale up preventive and clinical services to reduce health risks crippling vast chunks of the population …
The World Health Organization has said it is working to contain an outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) that has appeared in eastern Uganda on the border with Kenya. At least one person is confirmed to have died of MVD and several hundred people may have been exposed to the …
The World Health Organization has revoked the appointment of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador following a widespread outcry. "I have listened carefully to all who have expressed their concerns," WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement. He had previously praised Zimbabwe for its commitment to public …
Heads of State and Government and ministers from around the world today committed to new and bold action to reduce suffering and death from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), primarily heart and lung diseases, cancers and diabetes, the world’s leading killers. Governments endorsed the Montevideo Roadmap 2018-2030 on NCDs as a Sustainable …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) in its recent guidelines to tackle the global epidemic obesity categorically recommended "not to provide formulated supplementary foods on a routine basis to children who are moderately wasted or stunted". This recommendation comes as a shot in the arm for the Indian government's consistent stance …
In another five years, the number of obese children in the world will outnumber the malnourished ones. A report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Imperial College London, published in medical journal 'The Lancet', stated on Wednesday that obesity rates among the world's children and adolescents increased from less …
West Africa is most at risk of fatal hemorrhagic fever epidemics, including Ebola, researchers said Wednesday, calling for greater preparedness to save lives. A study in The Lancet medical journal assessed the likelihood of four viruses — Ebola, Lassa, Marburg and Crimean-Congo — spreading on the continent, charting progress from …
Despite the increase in child and adolescent obesity, globally, more children remain moderately or severely underweight, with 75 million girls and 117 million boys remaining moderately or severely underweight in 2016, found the study. An analysis of the global trends in child and adolescent obesity has revealed a more than …
KOLKATA: The dengue serotype that is stalking the city this time around is deadlier than usual. The health department has said that the strains this time are type two (Den 2) and four (Den 4), perhaps explaining why the disease has claimed more than 20 lives in and around the …
The World Health Organization says it has sent nearly 1.2 million doses of antibiotics to Madagascar in the fight against plague. The medicines were delivered last week, with the expectation that another 244,000 doses will be added in coming days as health officials battle the ongoing seasonal outbreak on the …
Eight years after it was launched, the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana remains hamstrung by inflexible procedures and an inadequate coverage ceiling, finds new evaluation of its impact. In India’s public health calendar, the recent past has been eventful. The head of the Indian Council of Medical Research, Dr Soumya Swaminathan, …
