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 …
DEHRADUN: Haridwar has emerged as the TB capital of the state with total 1,030 new cases detected in the last one year. TOI dug out data of TB patients and found out that Haridwar raced ahead of all other districts in the hill state in the number of positive cases …
During the first 1,000 days of life – from conception to age two – children need enough energy and nutrients to fulfill their growth potential A woman cooks food for her children at a village in rural Bangladesh. Malnutrition affects the children and prvents them from engaging in full economic …
People exposed to herbicides require more antibiotics to kill bacteria, according to new research published in mBio Antibiotics and herbicides, as it turns out, don’t mix. At least that’s the conclusion of a study published today in mBio, the peer-reviewed journal of the American Society for Microbiology, which found that …
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Indian street-food seller Kumar Pal first began treatment for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis two years ago, he quickly spiralled into depression and gave up hope of living. Weighing just 35 kg (77 lbs), shunned by his relatives and friends and in extreme pain due …
Mumbai, the financial capital of India, has the dubious distinction of being home to the highest number of TB patients in the world. The city has a prevalence of over 50,000 tuberculosis cases. Worse, it is also the hub of multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis with as many as 28000 notified …
Study Says 74Kg Mercury Released From 14.9M Lamps In Capital In 2014 A study has esti mated that 14.93 million com pact fluorescent lamps re leasing approximately 74.65kg of mercury were dis posed of unsafely in Delhi last year. The figure was ar rived at through extrapola tion from Delhi's …
The UN's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) said Friday (20 March) that three pesticides, including the popular weed killer Roundup, were "probably" carcinogenic and two others, which have already been outlawed or restricted, were "possibly" so. IARC classified the herbicide glyphosate – the active ingredient in Roundup – …
Monsanto Co. escalated its criticism of a World Health Organization agency’s finding last week that a commonly used herbicide probably has the potential to cause cancer in humans. The St. Louis-based agribusiness giant—a major seller of the weed killer—sought a meeting with senior WHO officials on the International Agency for …
Over the next 35 years, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis will kill 75 million people and could cost the global economy a cumulative $16.7 trillion (£15 trillion) - the equivalent of the European Union’s annual output, a UK parliamentary group said on Tuesday. If left untackled, the spread of drug-resistant TB superbugs threatens …
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa will be over by August, the head of the UN Ebola mission has told the BBC. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed admitted the UN had made mistakes in handling the crisis early on, sometimes acting "arrogantly". A year after the outbreak was officially declared, the …
HYDERABAD: In the wake of staggeringly worrying figures with regard to Tuberculosis cases in the state coming to the fore, experts have expressed concerns about controlling the disease. According to official figures, an astonishing 30,847 tuberculosis patients in Telangana were left untreated last year. Even as TB India has recorded …
On May 19, 2014, the 67th World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted WHO’s “Global strategy and targets for tuberculosis prevention, care and control after 2015”. This post-2015 global tuberculosis strategy, labelled the End TB Strategy, was shaped during the past 2 years. A wide range of stakeholders—from ministries of health and …
A global anti-tobacco conference that ended yesterday urged countries to take steps to reduce the consumption of tobacco, which it said was a leading cause of disease and death worldwide. In its final declaration, the 16th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health in Abu Dhabi also called for wider implementation …
DAKAR, Mar 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The slow international response to the West Africa Ebola outbreak created an avoidable tragedy that cost thousands of lives, a leading medical charity said on the one year anniversary of the first confirmed case. The world's worst Ebola epidemic has killed over 10,200 …
NEW DELHI: The level of air pollution in Delhi exceeds the limits prescribed by the World Health Organisation (WHO), government said in Rajya Sabha on Thursday. The air quality monitoring data for Delhi provided by Central Pollution Control Board indicates that the levels of particulate matter (PM2.5) exceed the WHO …
Over a third of hospitals and clinics in developing countries have nowhere for staff or patients to wash with soap, and almost 40 percent have no source of water, according to a WHO-backed international review published on Tuesday. The report, by sanitation charity WaterAid and the World Health Organization (WHO) …
As many as 1,000 people a day in Europe contract tuberculosis, and slow progress against the disease coupled with rising drug resistance mean the region is unlikely to defeat it until next century, health officials said on Tuesday. At current rates, the region has little chance of meeting a target …
With number of swine flu cases crossing 27,880, government on Tuesday said the virus would continue to circulate though no mutation was taking place. A total of 27,886 swine flu cases have been reported from different parts of the country since January 1 (up to March 11), Health and Family …
The Central Information Commission has pulled up the environment ministry for providing "false and misleading" information that it had conducted no study on the harmful effects of mobile radiations. It has also asked the ministry to explain why it has allowed unrestricted installation of mobile towers and not formulated any …
In order to gain clarity and study the outcomes of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) research, the Gujarat health department has set up a panel of health experts. The MIT research has raised concerns over the H1N1 virus in India acquiring mutations and making it more severe than the …
