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 …
NGO Centre for Science and Environment has critically analyzed a Council of Scientific and Industrial Research study, jointly carried out by Indian Institute of Petroleum and the University of Alberta, on presence of pollution-causing nanoparticles in CNG and diesel bus exhausts. This was in response to claims made by M …
Agartala: Besides four states of north and southern region, the World Health Organisation has found two northeast states Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh – have high prevalence of the dreaded Hepatitis C virus. Referring to a WHO report, which alerted all northeastern states including Tripura, a top health administrator here said …
Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. People are getting educated at different levels on how to deal with potential impacts. One such educational mode was the preparation of a school manual, for high school students on climate change and health protection endorsed by the National …
The government on Thursday said that more than 35,000 people had died due to acute respiratory infections (ARI) across India in close to 10 years. The Union environment ministry had in the past maintained that there was no “conclusive evidence” that links air pollution to respiratory diseases. Sharing details of …
Union environment ministry, which generally avoids sharing details of air pollution-linked deaths, made an exception on Thursday when it said in Parliament that more than 35,000 people had died due to acute respiratory infections (ARI) across India in close to 10 years. More than 2.6 crore cases were reported every …
The health department found over 70,000 children suffering from diarrhoea in a door-to-door survey of houses conducted in the state. The survey started from July 27 under Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight (IDCF). Till August 6, the health workers found 70,000 children suffering from diarrhea. The ailing children were provided with …
On a Tuesday afternoon in late July, a newlywed couple prepared to pose for their wedding portraits in front of Beijing’s historic Drum Tower. Lily Chen, 28, in a sparkling white gown and tiara, checked her makeup in a mirror—and then looked up the Air Quality Index (AQI) on her …
When Ebola broke out in West Africa in December 2013, triggering the largest-ever epidemic of the disease, there was no vaccine or drug that had been shown to be safe and effective in people. Just 20 months later, a vaccine seems to confer total protection against infection, according to the …
Harmful ozone pollution in Shanghai over the past 12 days has reached levels that are 1.5 times higher than the World Health Organisation’s recommended limit. Pollution from the toxic gas has now replaced PM2.5 particulates – minute chemical particles suspended in the air with diameters no bigger than 2.5 microns …
FOUR international public health organisations including the World Health Organisation (WHO), over the weekend, warned that with Africa at risk of a large meningitis outbreak, an acute shortage of meningitis C-containing vaccine threatens to severely limit the world’s ability to minimise the number of people affected. International Federation of Red …
A WHO report says Amritsar is the ninth most polluted city in the country | PPCB to install monitoring device soon Burgeoning population, increasing vehicular traffic, mushrooming hotels and industrial pollution continue to pose a serious threat to the Golden Temple which was earlier too robbed off its sheen due …
Walk into any home, office or warehouse and you can be sure to come across electronic junk or old, disused electronic gadgets such as cell phones, electric lamps, tape-recorders, radios, iPods and stereos, CDs, DVDs, batteries, even old TV and computers, fax machines and so on. Unlike kitchen and household …
GENEVA – The World Health Organization on Wednesday hailed the fewest weekly infections for over a year in the west African Ebola epidemic, but warned they were braced for a significant new outbreak in Sierra Leone. There were just four confirmed cases in Guinea in the week to Sunday and …
AURANGABAD: Mass awareness, universal guideline for immunisation and hygienic handling of food and water will help curb hepatitis, said experts on Tuesday while observing world Hepatitis Day. About, two million people contract hepatitis every year from unsafe injections. These infections can be averted through the use of sterile syringes that …
ISLAMABAD – The officials of UNICEF called on Federal Minister for Climate Change and congratulated him for achieving Millennium Development Goals of sanitation and improved drinking water, according to a press release of the federal government. “It is a positive story from Pakistan and needs to be celebrated and communicated …
In what could be a significant warning for India, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that the “subdued” P. Vivax malaria virus is contributing in large proportion in India and has taken a deadly form. While the efforts have so far been focused on P. Falciparum malaria, the WHO …
On the occasion of World Hepatitis Day today, experts have called for a national strategy to address the growing burden of viral Hepatitis in India with the disease being called a silent epidemic. While jaundice and acute liver failures caused by water borne Hepatitis A and E viruses remain a …
AS part of activities to mark the World Hepatitis Day (WHD), today, July 28, 2015, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has highlighted the urgent need for countries to enhance action to prevent viral hepatitis infection and to ensure that people who have been infected are diagnosed and offered treatment. The …
The most advanced candidate vaccine against dengue viruses, called CYD-TDV, is progressing toward potential registration and review by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2016. CYDTDV is a formulation of four chimeric yellow fever 17D vaccine viruses, each one engineered to express the surface envelope and prM (membrane) proteins from …
A candidate tetravalent dengue vaccine is being assessed in three clinical trials involving more than 35,000 children between the ages of 2 and 16 years in Asian–Pacific and Latin American countries. The researchers report the results of long-term follow-up interim analyses and integrated efficacy analyses.
