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 …
The breast cancer rate in Beijing has increased by 90 percent in the past two decades, according to Sun Qiang, director of the Peking Union Medical College Hospital’s Breast Center. “The incidence rate of breast cancer in Beijing kept growing by 4.6 percent annually, more than two times higher than …
The World Food Programme needs to raise $70 million to feed 1.3 million people at risk from shortages in Ebola-quarantined areas in West Africa, with the agency's resources already stretched by several major humanitarian crises, its regional director said. WFP's West Africa Director Denise Brown said the organisation was currently …
The effort to contain Ebola in Senegal is “a top priority emergency,” the World Health Organization said Sunday, as the government continued tracing everyone who came in contact with a Guinean student who has tested positive for the deadly disease in the capital, Dakar. Senegal faces an “urgent need” for …
LAHORE: The government of Punjab is spending around Rs 4,000 on every child for vaccination against polio, measles and other diseases. Punjab Health Services Director Dr Munir Ahmed said this on Sunday. He said that parents should cooperate with vaccinators who had been serving the people by putting their lives …
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa eventually could exceed 20,000 cases, more than six times as many as doctors know about now, the WHO said on Thursday . A new plan to stop Ebola by the UN health agency also assumes that in many hard-hit areas, the actual number of …
WHO issues a roadmap to guide and coordinate the international response to the outbreak of the Ebola virus disease in west Africa. The roadmap aims to stop ongoing Ebola transmission worldwide within 6-9 months while rapidly managing the consequences of any further international spread. It also recognises the need to …
UN agency seeks curbs on indoor use, advertising, sales to minors The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday called on governments to ban the sale of e-cigarettes to minors, warning that they pose a “serious threat” to foetuses and youth. This recommendation that also said the devices should be banned …
The African Development Bank will prepare an additional $150 million in funding for nations stricken by the Ebola virus as the World Health Organization plans to seek more resources and money to fight the outbreak. The worst-affected countries may see 1 percentage point to 1.5 percentage points shaved off economic …
Picture this. Poor people in developing countries suffering from a lack of modern energy supply. A young woman cooking on an open-pit fire. Two boys reading by flashlight. An old woman warming her hands in front of an indoor electricity heater fire. These images were found in a recent advertising …
The World Health Organization says there should be a ban on the use of e-cigarettes indoors and that sales to children should stop. In a report the health body says there must be no more claims that the devices can help smokers quit - until there is firm evidence to …
More than $430 million will be needed to bring the worst Ebola outbreak on record under control, according to a draft document laying out the World Health Organization’s battle strategy. The plan sets a goal of reversing the trend in new cases within two months, and stopping all transmission in …
A recent World Health Organziation (WHO) report on ambient air quality has ranked Ahmedabad as the 10th most polluted in the world, in terms of annual mean concentrations of Particulate Matter (PM2.5). The study was released in May this year. The first on the list is Delhi. Along with Ahmedabad, …
At least 70 people have died in northern Democratic Republic of Congo from an outbreak of hemorrhagic gastroenteritis, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, denying that the illness was Ebola. A WHO report dated Thursday and seen by Reuters said that 592 people had contracted the disease, of whom …
Khartoum – Sudan is free of the Ebola virus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced. One case was reported at Khartoum Airport coming from Sierra Leon, but following lab tests it was proven that the patient was free of Ebola, WHO representative in Sudan confirmed. A committee was set-up …
Riot police and soldiers acting on their president’s orders used scrap wood and barbed wire to seal off 50,000 people inside their Liberian slum Wednesday, trying to contain the Ebola outbreak that has killed 1,350 people and counting across West Africa. Hundreds of slum residents clashed with the gunmen, furious …
MUZAFFARPUR: A single dose of ambisome injection has cured 16 kala-azar patients in a single day at Kala-azar Research Centre being run by Dr T K Jha in Bramhapura locality here. Jha claimed on Thursday he received 100 vials of the injection free of cost from a US-based NGO and …
UNITED NATIONS - The number of Ebola cases in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, has reached 2,240 and a total of 1,229 deaths were also registered, UN spokesman Steaphane Dujarric told reporters here Tuesday, quoting information from the World Health Organization (WHO). "WHO is working with the World Food …
Up to 30,000 people could have used experimental treatments or vaccines so far in the world's worst outbreak of Ebola currently plaguing West Africa, British scientists said on Wednesday. The calculation highlights the dilemma facing officials considering how to distribute the tiny quantities of unproven drugs that are likely to …
China's coal consumption has declined for the first time in about 100 years in the first half of 2014, as the world's second largest economy is striving to achieve cleaner growth by declaring a "war on pollution". Activist group Greenpeace International said in a blog post that China's coal use …
Liberia battled on Tuesday to halt the spread of the Ebola disease in its crowded, run-down ocean side capital Monrovia, recording the most new deaths as fatalities from the world’s worst outbreak of the deadly virus rose above 1,200. The epidemic of the haemorrhagic disease, which can kill up to …
