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 …
Fiji has been recognized and commended by the World Health Organization in the Pacific island country's efforts to combat the consumption of tobacco products. Fiji's Ministry of Health and Medical Services was on Thursday awarded "World No Tobacco Day" award by the WHO for raising awareness and advocacy in the …
According to Central Pollution Control Board trends, air quality in Vijayawada is worse than in Vizag and Hyderabad According to a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the deaths due to lung diseases in India were on the rise accounting for 11 per cent of the total deaths. As …
Successive Delhi governments have not been serious about improving the notoriously bad quality of air that people breathe in the national capital. As pollution gradually peaked to alarming levels, governments sat on special ‘air quality’ funds, official documents accessed by Mail Today reveal. In the last seven years, the Delhi …
Delhi’s appalling pollution has prompted fears that millions of youngsters will suffer serious health problems later in life The dusty patch of ground in the centre of the narrow lanes and overcrowded tenements of Anand Vihar Colony is empty. No children play cricket, wrestle or run. Even when evening comes …
Delhi's outdoor air quality has deteriorated over the years with the presence of particulate matters reaching alarming levels mainly due to vehicular and industrial emissions, as per the Economic Survey of Delhi 2014-15. The PM10 (particulate matter) levels sharply rose from 282 g/m3 (micrograms per cubic metre) in 2013 to …
Delhi’s appalling pollution has prompted fears that millions of youngsters will suffer serious health problems later in life. The dusty patch of ground in the centre of the narrow lanes and overcrowded tenements of Anand Vihar Colony is empty. No children play cricket, wrestle or run. Even when evening comes …
LUDHIANA: PAU claims to have developed a water-testing kit that costs only Rs 40. Punjab Agricultural University's department of microbiology says the kit is portable and is able to find out whether the tested water is drinkable or not. It is available at the PAU department's building for Rs 40. …
In May 2015, the ministry of environment, forests and climate change proposed rules to curb air pollution from coal-fired power plants. At first glance, the draft notification may seem like a breath of fresh air. The proposed standards are comparable to stringent international levels for units installed after 2017. But …
To achieve WHO's target to halt the rise in obesity and diabetes, dramatic actions are needed to improve the healthiness of food environments. Substantial debate surrounds who is responsible for delivering effective actions and what, specifically, these actions should entail. Arguments are often reduced to a debate between individual and …
Administrative staff to serve in New Delhi for three instead of four years now The German Embassy in New Delhi has quietly curtailed the posting of its administrative staff from four to three years making Germany the first country to act on concerns over the poor air quality in the …
Air pollution from respirable particulate matter (PM2.5) could be responsible for 10,000 to 30,000 premature deaths in Delhi — up to 80 deaths each day — authors of an international study released on Tuesday indicated. Scientists who conducted the study, published in the Environmental Science and Technology journal, said most …
NEW DELHI: Never mind lowering the rate of death from air pollution in India and China. Just keeping those rates steady will demand urgent action to clear the skies, according to a report published on Tuesday. The findings — gleaned from a new global model for how changes in outdoor …
Improving air quality — in clean and dirty places — could potentially avoid millions of pollution-related deaths each year. That finding comes from a team of environmental engineering and public health researchers who developed a global model of how changes in outdoor air pollution could lead to changes in the …
French Environment and Energy Minister Segolene Royal has asked garden shops to stop over-the-counter sales of Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller as part of a wider fight against pesticides seen as potentially harmful to humans. "France must be offensive on stopping pesticides," Royal told France 3 television on Sunday. She did not …
Some 400 million people worldwide lack access to essential health services, and the cost of healthcare is forcing many into poverty, the World Bank and World Health Organization reported Friday. A new report by the bank and WHO on tracking universal health care (UHC) coverage said more people than ever …
Health expenses push six per cent of people in low and middle income countries into extreme poverty, according to a new report released here Friday by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Bank. Speaking at the report's release, Tessa Tan Torres-Edejer, WHO co-ordinator of health systems financing, said …
NAGPUR: The World Health Assembly of World Health Organization that concluded a few days ago expressed concern about the increasing burden of diseases and deaths due to air pollution. Health experts are worried about professionals like traffic police who are exposed to outdoor air pollution all through the day, making …
In Guinea, 16 new cases were found in the week ending June 7, with 15 more found in neighbouring Sierra Leone The number of Ebola cases has risen in Guinea and Sierra Leone for the second consecutive week, the World Health Organization said today. In Guinea, 16 new cases were …
Government’s plan to hasten up the rolling out of BS-VI fuel norms across the country, by skipping BS-V standards, is not acceptable by many. NEW DELHI: India has been looking to upgrade to higher vehicle emission standards for a few years now. The years of delay have created a lot …
Programme Manager at the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Dr. Dennis Marke, says Sierra Leone risk a polio importation, and that many children could be affected if nothing was done about the risk. He was speaking at the Ministry of Health and Sanitation conference hall at Youyi building in Freetown …
