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 six cities hosting the tournament — New Delhi, Navi Mumbai, Goa, Kochi, Guwahati and Kolkata — share dangerous levels of air pollution that threaten the health of spectators and athletes," activists said. With temperatures dropping and air quality dipping in Delhi, environment activists have raised a red flag regarding …
An outbreak of plague has killed at least 20 people in a month in Madagascar, with more than 80 others infected, the World Health Organization said. Plague is mainly spread by flea-carrying rats. Humans bitten by an infected flea usually develop a bubonic form of plague, which swells lymph nodes …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said 147 cases of measles have been recorded in Kwara between January and August, this year. The WHO's measles Focal Person for Kwara, Wole Adaramola, disclosed this during a Level Training of Trainers on Measles Microplan on Tuesday in Ilorin. He said: "Between …
More than 50% areas in city choke under 70 – 80 db, reveals BMC data High-pitch protests by groups of Mumbai's citizens and activists have clearly landed in deaf ears. A shocking data, recorded by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for 2016-17, reveals that most areas in the city wilt under …
Dehradun: Addressing a conference, the National Health Mission (NHM) director, Chandresh Kumar, said that Uttarakhand has taken up a target to make the state free from Tuberculosis by 2025. He was speaking at the three-day training and workshop of district Tuberculosis (TB) officers, supervisors and district coordinators of Uttarakhand that …
Michael H Merson has led a number of training programmes to strengthen the capacity of scientists in Russia, China, India and South Africa to undertake research on HIVAIDS prevention. He's held multiple posts with the World Health Organization (WHO) -medical officer of the Diarrhoeal Diseases Control Program, and director of …
GENEVA - The World Health Organization reports some progress is being made in reducing premature deaths from non-communicable diseases. But it says much more needs to be done to save the lives of nearly 40 million people who die every year from preventable causes. In this latest global assessment, the …
The centres will be in addition to the 31 centres already functioning and upgraded since 2014-15, when the government floated the scheme. The health ministry has drawn a detailed project plan which will be reviewed by the PMO on Monday in a high-level meeting. According to the proposal, reviewed by …
Air Pollution Institute of Research will begin with collecting data to link pollution to diseases Alarmed by the growing negative impact of increasing air pollution on public health, eight of the country’s top doctors specialising in various disciplines have come together to form the Air Pollution Institute of Research (AIR) …
All monitoring stations in Bengaluru continue to record higher than permissible limits of air pollution The numbers may have improved slightly in the city, but Bengaluru remains far from achieving healthy air levels. All the monitoring stations continue to record higher than permissible limits of air pollution (the national limit …
Ask anyone what they think the most dangerous creature on the planet is, and the answers will most likely be sharks, crocodiles, anacondas or poisonous jelly fishes. What you probably do not realise is that there is a creature, just as dangerous as these, lurking near you. Mosquitoes are said …
In Delhi, which was for two consecutive years in 2014 and 2015 ranked as the most polluted city in the world, people could live nine years longer if it met WHO standards. And, six years longer if it met the country’s own national standards. INDIANS COULD live four years longer …
Setting itself a three-year target to eliminate hepatitis, which affects 52 million people in the country, the health ministry is gearing up to roll out a national action plan by October end. "The plan is in its final stages and we will be launching it very soon. The three main …
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Air pollution caused by coal-fired winter heating has slashed life expectancy in northern China by more than three years compared with the south, according to a new study, underlining the urgency of Beijing’s efforts to tackle smog. Researchers with the Energy Policy Institute at the University of …
KINSHASA - More than 500 people have died so far in a cholera epidemic that is sweeping the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. Outbreaks of the water-borne disease occur regularly in Congo, mainly due to poor sanitation and a lack of access to clean drinking …
A study which appeared in the National Centre for Biotechnology Information’s (NCBI) journal suggests that constant surveillance and data gathering of patients who have consumed Oseltamivir has to be undertaken and continuously updated. During his visit to isolation wards in Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot and Ahmedabad, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on …
South Africa has reported eight new cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N8 to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). The new cases were reported in Western Cape, Mpumalanga and North West provinces bringing the total number of outbreaks to 24 since June 2017. Ten outbreaks were confirmed …
The Union Health Ministry has released an ambitious National Health Policy to deal with problems that hinder affordable healthcare for citizens. DNA does a 'full-body check-up'. Given India's need for good affordable healthcare, the Modi government has so far not been able to achieve the lofty reforms it has promised. …
IN POOR countries people are living longer and healthier lives than ever. Since 2000 child mortality has fallen by almost half. The rate of new HIV/AIDS infections has dropped by 40%. About 7m deaths from malaria have been prevented. Yet there is much more to be done. By one measure, …
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat government and the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) once again got a rebuke from Gujarat high court on Wednesday "for taking its direction lightly" in response to a petition seeking prompt measure to curb spread of swine flu, which has already claimed over 200 lives across the state. A …
