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 …
KATHMANDU, Sept 18: Nepal has become the first ever country, among the 11 South East Asian countries, to use the latest antidote to Polio, Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV). Nepal is honored with this title after Minister for Health and Population, Khagaraj Adhikari, handed over the vaccine for administering to a …
BEIJING - A haze of second hand smoke may continue to hang heavily over Beijing if the latest draft amendment for controls on cigarette smoke remains unchanged. Wang Qingbin, an associate law professor at the China University of Political Science and Law, said the draft amendment for Beijing's anti-smoking regulations …
The number of Ebola cases could start doubling every three weeks in West Africa, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, warning that the outbreak will cost nearly $1 billion to contain so it does not turn into a "human catastrophe." Even as President Obama is ordering the deployment of 3,000 …
The unprecedented Ebola outbreak in West Africa requires a $1 billion (£617.2 million) response to keep its spread within the "tens of thousands" of cases, United Nations officials said on Tuesday. The virus has killed 2,461 people, half of the 4,985 infected by the virus, and the toll has doubled …
Kathleen Holloway and David Henry evaluate whether countries that report having implemented WHO essential medicines policies have higher quality use of medicines.
KARACHI: The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) is yet to take action on a last year report that highlights high levels of pollution being caused by sugar mills. The report prepared by private consultants of the Sindh Irrigation and Drainage Authority was part of the water sector improvement project phase-1. …
THE lucky ones are admitted to a health centre. They arrive bleeding, in taxis, on foot, in wheelbarrows and sometimes in ambulances. Mostly there is little help available and patients are dying alone, lying on the ground and lucky to receive even palliative care. Médecins Sans Frontières, a medical charity …
Chhattisgarh government has decided to survey its air quality by installing two air-monitoring systems in the state capital. Two similar systems would also be installed, one each in Bilaspur and Raigarh. Talking to TOI, Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board (CECB) member Devendra Singh said the systems, which cost Rs 65 lakh …
Tobacco is not only one of the reasons for causing various diseases but it is also responsible for huge economic burden on the tobacco users. According to a study conducted by Public Health Foundation of India and WHO, the total economic costs attributed to tobacco use in Rajasthan amounted to …
Health workers, wearing Personal Protective Equipment, arrive with a potentially contaminated patient at Elwa hospital in Monrovia (7 September 2014). Ebola is spreading exponentially in Liberia, with thousands of new cases expected in the next three weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. Conventional methods to control the outbreak were …
Early detection can lead to the modification of underlying unhealthy behaviours such as inappropriate diet, inadequate physical activity, tobacco and alcohol use. Hence, an initiative has been taken by the state Health Department where health institutions having low client load (OPD) will conduct community screening and preventive health check-up camps …
U.S. and European officials kicked more than $250 million in additional funding into the fight against the worst Ebola outbreak in history after the World Health Organization said budget cuts were hampering its efforts. The European Commission will commit 140 million euros ($181 million) to help strengthen medical systems in …
Warnings over e-cigarettes are alarmist - and increasing their use could save many lives, researchers have said. For every million smokers who switch to e-cigarettes, more than 6,000 lives a year could be saved, according to the University College London team. Meanwhile another group of London-based experts has attacked criticism …
GURGAON: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has allocated $450,000 for health projects in Haryana. Speaking at a three-day workshop in city on 'Implementation Research proposal development', Rakesh Gupta, mission director, National Health Mission, Haryana, said that some of the projects address the burning issues in state like implementation of community …
Diabetes has now been found to be fuelling India’s tuberculosis burden. India has the world’s highest diabetes patients and is also referred to as the world’s TB capital. Now, a study to be announced by the British medical journal Lancet on Thursday, reveal that India tops the list of countries …
The United Nations said $600 million(364.52 million British pound) in supplies would be needed to fight West Africa's Ebola outbreak, as the death toll from the worst ever epidemic of the virus topped 1,900 and Guinea warned it had penetrated a new part of the country. The pace of the …
City Is The Least Polluted Among 32 Metros In Country, According To WHO Report This must come as a surprise for Kochi which has been pursuing its infra dreams and, according to popular perception, witnessing a consequent rise in air pollution levels. The global health report 2014 of the World …
The Centre on Tuesday unveiled a kala-azar rapid diagnosis kit as part of its strategy to combat the disease which predominantly strike Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh. The kit developed by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) was released by Union Health Minister …
According to the study, in some parts of India pollution levels are more than three times higher than a typical London street A new study published in the Lancet revealing that household air pollution, caused by the use of plant-based or coal fuel for cooking, heating and lighting, is putting …
Nigeria has a third confirmed case of Ebola in the oil hub of Port Harcourt, bringing the country's total confirmed infections to 17, with 271 people under surveillance, the health minister said on Monday. The figure was revised up from an earlier one of 16, which had been the result …
