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 …
Earlier, the Union health ministry had launched the National Framework for Malaria Elimination (NFME), which outlines the country’s strategy for elimination of malaria by 2030. UT administrator Kaptan Singh Solanki will launch the health department’s malaria elimination programme in the city on Monday after its scheduled inauguration was cancelled last …
Mumbai: In an indication of the very poor health of the city's air, Mumbai has been declared by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as the fifth most polluted megacity in the world in terms of PM 10 (coarse pollution particles) levels. The city is 39 on the list of most …
Delhi is not the most polluted city in the world any more, according to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) urban air quality database released on Thursday. In fact, it now ranks 11th among 3,000 cities in 103 countries in terms of PM 2.5 (fine, particulate pollution) and 25th in terms …
The worst yellow fever epidemic in Angola since 1986 is rapidly spreading, including the capital, Luanda. In Angola, the epidemic began in December 2015 and the laboratory-confirmed outbreak was reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on January 21, 2016.1 Angola has had 2023 suspected cases and 258 deaths as …
Dengue, the mosquito-borne disease which hits India hard every year, is estimated to cost the world a whopping $8.9 billion annually. That's higher than many major infectious diseases including cholera, canine rabies and rotavirus gastroenteritis, medical journal Lancet has said quoting a new study. India shares a significant burden of …
A 53-year-old throat cancer patient from Chikkamagaluru, who had undergone an emergency tracheostomy in a city hospital, was discharged after being taught some basic suction techniques. However, the man died after five days as the local healthcare unit didn't have a doctor or medical staffer who could help him use …
The Centre is drafting a national policy for AYUSH and one of the key proposals will be to include ayurveda, unani, siddha and homeopathy under the universal health insurance scheme which will enable integrating traditional systems of medicine into the public health system. Besides, it will also focus on the …
`Have Less Muscle And More Fat' Adults may not be the only ones prone to heart ailments, newborns are equally at risk. Newborns in India have high fat inside abdomen leading to higher risk of heart diseases from birth itself, according to a study. Findings of the cohort study , …
As Asthma continues to affect people due to poor air quality, health experts on Tuesday urged the government to regulate the increasing toxic smoke from industries and dust from construction sites. The two factors have played a major role in doubling asthma patients in the country. According to the doctors, …
Computers emit radiation that can cause many ailments People working in a closed office environment, where there are many computers, are at risk of sustained radiation exposure, which can cause several ailments including asthma, doctors have warned on the eve of World Asthma Day. Computers emit both low-frequency and radio-frequency …
According to World Health Organization, India has an estimated 15-20 million asthmatics. If data is to be believed, 25 per cent of the Indian population suffers from allergy and 5 per cent of them are suffering from asthma. Also, estimates suggest that by the year 2025, an additionally 100 million …
Workers in fields and factories face an epidemic of heat-related injuries that will devastate their health, income and productivity as climate change takes hold, a major UN report has warned. Productivity losses alone could rise above $2tn by 2030, as outdoor employees in many regions slow their pace, take longer …
Whilst countries in the tropics and subtropics exhibit diverse patterns of seasonal flu activity, they can be grouped into eight geographical zones to optimise vaccine formulation and delivery timing, according to a study published April 27, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Siddhivinayak Hirve from the World Health …
Pacific nations face the triple burden of communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases and associated wider health impacts as climate change proves to be the most significant health threat of the 21st century, the World Health Organisation warns. The pacific island nations are the most vulnerable to human-induced climate change with tangible …
The underlying fact seems incontrovertible: mosquito resistance to the insecticides used to treat bednets is growing. The question is what can be done to combat this resistance and ringfence the dramatic drop in global malaria deaths over the past 15 years? Since 2000, the numbers of people dying of malaria …
Six countries in Africa, the continent where malaria is most widespread, could be free of the disease by 2020, according to a WHO report published Monday to mark World Malaria Day. One of the goals of the World Health Organization's 2016-2030 programme against malaria is to wipe out the disease …
A new World Health Organisation (WHO) report says an estimated 12.6 million people are dying each year globally from ‘unhealthy environment’ alone. This is one in every four casualties across the globe. Of these, two thirds, or 8.2 million, deaths are from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as strokes, heart attacks, …
In the past several years, as worldwide morbidity and mortality due to malaria have continued to decrease, the global malaria community has grown increasingly supportive of the idea of malaria eradication. In 2015, three noteworthy global documents were released—the WHO's Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016–2030, the Roll Back Malaria …
More than 150 countries have begun switching to a different polio vaccine - an important milestone towards polio eradication, health campaigners say. The new vaccine will target the two remaining strains of the virus under a switchover 18 months in the planning. There were just 74 cases of the paralysing …
Ranked as one of the most obese nations on the continent, South Africa is joining a growing list of countries around the world, trying to put a cap on fizzy drinks. But sweet toothed consumers are unlikely to give up on the drinks . I don’t think people will buy …
