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 …
Even as the government is still deliberating on larger pictorial warnings on packs of tobacco products, 40% of Indian adults are exposed to second hand tobacco smoke at home. These are people who do not smoke themselves but are vulnerable to various diseases because someone smokes at home, showed a …
Stung by a recent World Health Organization (WHO) report that said the probability of people dying prematurely of leading non-communicable diseases (NCDs) was the highest in India among all SAARC nations, the government has decided to work on lowering the cost of anti-cancer drugs and cardiovascular stents. Health Ministry sources …
The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) was launched in 2000, aiming to stop the spread of infection and alleviate suffering. Mass drug administration (MDA) is the recommended preventive chemotherapy (PC) strategy of delivering safe, anthelminthic drugs to populations at risk of LF to prevent morbidity due to infection …
Fewer Than Three Beds Available Per Thousand Population The current dengue outbreak in the national capital region has lifted the veil from the gaps in the healthcare system. There are more than 100 cars per 1,000 population in Delhi but the number of hospital beds available for the same number …
Of the 3.3 million premature deaths worldwide in 2010 caused by outdoor air pollution, about 0.65 million deaths took place in India. These deaths were in adults older than 30 years and children younger than five years. India has the second highest premature deaths caused by outdoor air pollution. With …
Over one million Nigerian school children are expected to join thousands more in the UK and millions of people around the world in the biggest celebration of Global Hand-washing Day next month. Concern Universal, an international development and relief organization, announced this, Wednesday, stating that the aim is to help …
PANAJI: From just one case of swine flu reported last year, to 146 cases recorded since January this year, Goa has also reported 16 swine flu-related deaths, including one just last week. Of these 16 deaths, two were patients referred to the Goa medical college (GMC) and hospital, Bambolim, from …
A leading environment agency in Sharjah has rejected the recent findings of the World Bank in its Little Green Data Book identifying the UAE as the "country with the most polluted air". In a Press statement, Bee'ah asserted that contrary to the World Bank claim, the UAE is making remarkable …
THE Ministry of Health and Child Care says 221 mothers have died while giving birth so far this year. According to the ministry's weekly diseases surveillance report, of the figure, 10 died in the last week of August. The deaths were reported in Gweru district in Midlands (2), Gwanda district …
PUNE: The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for renewed commitments and focused efforts to eliminate neglected tropical diseases - kala azar, leprosy, yaws, lymphatic filariasis and schistosomiasis - which continue to disable, disfigure and kill people in the WHO South-East Asia Region. "Though called neglected diseases, these are diseases …
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned member nations against the return to pre-antibiotic era on account of excessive and indiscriminate use of life-saving medicines and their over-the-counter sales. The concern was expressed this week at the South East Asia Region meeting of the WHO at Dili, capital of Timor-Leste …
Seventy per cent of air pollution in Ha Noi is created by the endless streams of traffic, the Centre for Environmental Monitoring has reported. The content of PM10 (particles less than 10 micrometers in diameter) caused by traffic is four times higher than the alarm rate set by the World …
HOUSTON: Nearly 5.9 million children will die before their fifth birthday this year mainly of preventable causes, a UN report has warned, though the child mortality rate has fallen by more than 50 percent since 1990. The mortality rate among children under five has fallen from 12.7 million deaths per …
United Nations agencies, UNICEF, WHO as well as the Washington-based World Bank have said Mozambique is part of a group of ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa that have achieved half of the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for reducing child mortality.In a joint report sent to APA on …
The Americas region, which includes the Caribbean has been declared free of Rubella. The declaration of the elimination of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome was made by the international expert committee for Measles and Rubella Elimination in the Americas during the recent meeting of the Pan American Health Organisation and …
Brazil has seen its child mortality rate fall by 73 percent between 1990 and 2015, according to new statistics published Wednesday by the World Health Organization (WHO). According to the new report, Levels and Trends in Child Mortality 2015, the rate of death of Brazilian children under five years old …
The greatest risk is during the first few days after birth, the report says Child mortality has fallen by more than 50% since 1990, a report by the World Health Organization and UN children's agency Unicef says. It says that 25 years ago 12.7 million children under five died, but …
Cases of a crippling vaccine-derived polio virus could spread in Ebola-ravaged Guinea and in Mali after a Guinean toddler travelled to Mali and became the country's first polio case in more than four years, the World Health Organization said on Monday. The case, caused by a strain of the virus …
As many as 32 farmers from the Marathwada region committed suicide in a span of seven days, bringing the death toll this year to 660. Last week, the region had recorded 628 farmer suicides. Debt and crop losses were the main reasons being cited for the deaths. Except for Hingoli, …
The health costs of tobacco exceeded the combined annual state and central government expenditure on health care by 12% in 2011 In January this year, the government asked for public opinion on tougher new laws to curb smoking: To raise the minimum smoking age to 21 from 18, and to …
