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 …
Heavy pollution enveloped northern China today, prompting warnings for people to stay indoors as smog in some areas exceeded levels recommended by the World Health Organization by more than 16 times. The concentration of PM2.5, fine air particulates that pose the greatest health risk, was 408 micrograms per cubic meter …
Study by US and Indian researchers finds nearly 6m annual clinically diagnosed dengue cases between 2006 and 2012 The annual number of dengue fever cases in India is nearly 300 times higher than officially reported, according to a study by US and Indian researchers. The report also finds the sometimes-fatal …
After the Additional Solicitor-General of India favoured making pollution control certificate mandatory for motorists at petrol pumps, the Environment department of the Delhi government has sent the file to Lt-Governor Najeeb Jung for perusal. According to officials, the file is in process and a notification on it will be made …
PESHAWAR, Pakistan—When Salma Iqbal developed a high fever in July, her family didn’t think it was anything to worry about. Within two days, however, the alert, playful 9-month-old’s legs had gone limp. The family rushed her to a clinic in the Bakhshu Pul area, a dusty suburb of Peshawar in …
Dengue virus (DENV) infection occurs throughout tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world where dengue is a major public health problem. Laboratory diagnosis of dengue with a single serum specimen obtained during the acute phase of the illness requires tests to detect IgM antibodies to DENV or the virus genome. …
Every 5th Lucknowite Is At Risk: Study Almost 25% of all people who suffer heart attacks are below 45 years of age. And more than half of all these young patients die before reaching the hospital. This is in fact a global trend, and that’s why the theme for World …
Sets target of 30% reduction by 2025 Cutting down on salt can lower the risk of developing heart disease and stroke, the World Health Organisation said on the eve of World Heart Day, targeting a 30 per cent reduction in salt intake in all supporting nations by 2025. In a …
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a new message for the developing world's metropolises: make your roads safer. Mr. Bloomberg is expected to announce Monday that his philanthropic organization will spend $125 million during the next five years on programs to reduce traffic deaths and injuries in 10 …
The death toll in the world’s worst-ever Ebola epidemic has now soared past 3,000, with the virus killing almost half of the more than 6,500 people it has infected, according to World Health Organization figures released Saturday. In its latest update, the UN health agency said a total of 6,574 …
New figures suggest 70% of those infected with Ebola in West Africa have died, higher than previously reported, says the World Health Organization. Ebola infections will treble to 20,000 by November if efforts to tackle the outbreak are not stepped up, the UN agency has warned. In the worst case …
Vaccine trials under way as experts fear disease could become endemic in worst-hit areas of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia Experimental drugs are to be fast-tracked into west Africa so that they can be tested and, if they work, save lives in the Ebola epidemic, which, experts say, is spiralling …
The deadliest Ebola epidemic ever has now killed 2,811 in west Africa, the World Health Organisation said yesterday, adding though that in Senegal and Nigeria the outbreak had been basically contained. The UN health agency, which also published the results of the latest meeting of its Ebola emergency committee, said …
Global experts issued stark new warnings of the scale of West Africa's Ebola outbreak on Tuesday, with the U.S. government estimating between 550,000 and 1.4 million people might be infected in the region by January. The U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said its projection was based on …
Sadashiv Peth, Vadgaon Budruk Found Infested With Breeding Sites The spread of dengue virus is alarming not just in Sahakarnagar but also in residential areas of Sadashiv Peth and Vadgaon Budruk. Surveys conducted by state health officials have found these parts infested with Aedes mosquito breeding sites, mainly areas where …
Ratnanagar (Chitwan), Sept 24: The cases of cancer have been rising alarmingly in the country over the years. Some 4,600 cases of cancer were diagnosed from 25,000 patients visiting BP Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital last year, the hospital disclosed. According to the Assistant Public Health Officer Bhola Shiwakoti, the hospital …
A recent state health survey has sounded the dengue alarm in Sahakarnagar area, with 78% of the houses here found to have rampant breeding of dengue-causing Aedes mosquito on their premises. The survey's findings have led to the area being marked as high-risk zone with an outbreak-like situation. The entomological …
An outbreak of Ebola in West Africa has been largely contained in Senegal and Nigeria, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday, but the disease is still spreading elsewhere and has now killed over 2,811 people in the region. Senegal and Nigeria, the most recent of five nations to …
As of September 14, 2014, a total of 4507 confirmed and probable cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD), as well as 2296 deaths from the virus, had been reported from five countries in West Africa — Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. In terms of reported morbidity and mortality, …
On bad days, students are asked to stay indoors at school and plumes of dust hover above the streets. Residents of Brooklyn, in Melbourne's west, have been plagued by dust pollution for many years and the Environment Protection Authority's annual report reveals the problem is not going away. Air pollution …
The UN will formulate ambitious Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, including one for health. Feasible goals with some quantifiable, measurable targets can influence governments. We propose, as a quatitative health target, “Avoid in each country 40% of premature deaths (under-70 deaths that would be seen in the 2030 population at …
