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 …
Interdisciplinary research at the University of Leicester has explored the impact of black carbon on bacteria in the respiratory tract Researchers from the University of Leicester have for the first time discovered that bacteria that cause respiratory infections are directly affected by air pollution -- increasing the potential for infection …
The union environment ministry recently expressed doubts about international reports that link air pollution with mortality and recommended exercising caution in interpreting these studies. But now the union health ministry along with the World Health Organisation (WHO) is set to release a public declaration on the health impacts of air …
Elections may come and go, but Tiwaritola’s fate seems cast in stone There is little to distinguish Tiwaritola from other hamlets in the backward region of eastern Uttar Pradesh. Awful roads, poor sanitation, unreliable power supply, river embankment woes, unbridled poverty and unemployment scar its infrastructure and social landscape. But …
MUMBAI: Five years after the emergence of totally drug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria in India, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday published its first-ever list of antibiotic-resistant "priority pathogens" - a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health. Antibiotic resistant or antimicrobial resistance has …
CHENNAI: Even as the State health department is confidently striding ahead to get Chennai declared as malaria-free by the World Health Organisation, a study done by the National Institute of Malaria Research (NCMR), Chennai along with other institutions has shown the existence of asymptomatic malaria which remains undetected. This sub-microscopic …
The World Health Organization (WHO) is scaling up its response in Somalia to provide critical health services for 1.5 million people currently affected by severe drought conditions and a worsening food crisis. However, the Organization urgently requires US$ 10 million as part of the United Nations appeal for the first …
• A London-based tech start-up is developing a secretive tool designed to limit the impact of air pollution in major cities. • Husband-and-wife team Jamie and Marie-Alexandrine Burrows this week launched Vertical Future, a company backed by HSBC, which aims to tackle the negative effects of urbanisation and make our …
The Western Cape health department has vaccinated 15,000 pupils and children against measles in Stellenbosch and Drakenstein in February, in an effort to prevent the spread of the disease. There are currently nine confirmed cases of measles and all patients have been treated and are recovering. The department said it …
The move will give states the flexibility and freedom to choose their own path and progress at their own trajectory, WHO Representative said. The WHO has stressed on the need for a national framework defining roles of the Centre and the states to address health issues and ensure convergence and …
The air Indians breathe is turning more toxic by the day and an average of two deaths take place daily due to air pollution, says a new study. According to medical journal The Lancet, over a million Indians die every year due to air pollution and some of the worst …
Women living in Indian cities may inhale 10 times more pollution than those living in rural areas of developed nations. According to a report of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) published in the latest issue of the journal, Environment International, " Air pollution may not just harm people who are …
Garbage set on fire as heavy smoke billows causing air pollution in New Delhi. The study says causes of air pollution and climate change are intricately linked and needed to be tackled together. The air Indians breathe is turning more toxic by the day and an average of two deaths …
Two vaccine candidates have been shown to be effective — in one case, 100 percent effective — in preventing malaria. The biotech firm Sanaria Inc. of Rockville, Maryland, developed the vaccines. They prime the immune system against the malaria parasite by introducing live but weakened sporozoites — the earliest spore …
Democratic Republic of Congo's worst yellow fever outbreak in decades has ended two months after Angola declared its epidemic to be over, following a massive UN-backed vaccine campaign, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. No new cases have been reported in either country in six months, just over a year …
DAKAR, Feb 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of people in southeastern Chad are at risk of dying from a worsening hepatitis E outbreak which has killed 11 people since September, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday. Some 885 people in the Salamat region have been treated …
A day after the Centre claimed there was no conclusive data to link deaths to air pollution, Greenpeace today said that the government should not waste time on debating the "already established" link and should take "urgent and corrective" action. The green body, which had recently claimed in a study …
Smog levels in New Delhi had reached 999 PM 2.5 - 16 times the safe level The 2016 report says that India has a PM 2.5 of 62, while the safe limit is 60 The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently released its 2016 data for the most polluted nations in …
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced arrangements for a comprehensive national survey to determine volume of cancer cases and deaths in Sudan besides knowing the capabilities of hospitals in the states for treatment of the disease, to be carried out early next May. WHO Representative in Sudan Dr Neema …
With over 8.8 million cancer deaths recorded globally yearly out of which an estimated 80,000 are Nigerians, the World Health Organisation, WHO, has called on specialists to pay special attention to early diagnosis of cancer, because most oncological diseases are curable, if identified early. According to new figures released by …
Muscat: Although Oman is ranked second from bottom in the GCC region when it comes to deaths from lifestyle-related diseases, medical experts in the region have warned that rankings may soon get worse as stress at work begins to take its toll on people’s health. According to the World Health …
