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 Data Was Released By Union Ministry Of Health Undivided Andhra Pradesh reported the highest number of pregnant mothers testing positive for HIV in 2013. According to recent data from the Union ministry of health and family welfare, 1,330 pregnant women of the nearly seven lakh carrying mothers screened in …
Nigeria has 12 confirmed cases of the Ebola virus, up from 10 at last week's count, of which five have almost fully recovered, the Health Ministry said on Monday. It said in a statement that 189 people in Lagos and six others in the southeastern city of Enugu were under …
Electronic-cigarettes (electronic nicotine delivery systems-ENDS), the new fad among tobacco users, are all set to be banned in India. Recognising its adverse effects on health, the Union health ministry has decided to ban these “nicotine inhalers” through proper legislation soon. During a recent meeting attended by well-known scientists, health experts, …
With more than one million people affected by the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the WHO has warned that there is "no early end in sight" to the severe health crisis and called for "extraordinary measures" to stop the transmission of the disease. According to the latest update issued …
Telecom Enforcement, Resource and Monitoring cells are part of the vigilance and monitoring wing of the DoT Random testing of more than 10,500 mobile towers across Gujarat did not find a single case of violation of radiation norms by the towers, said a senior official of Telecom Enforcement, Resource and …
The Union Health Ministry on Wednesday said that there was no confirmed or even suspect case of Ebola virus disease in India as yet. In a statement, the Ministry said that a 30-year-old Nigerian national, who arrived at the Delhi Airport, was admitted to Dr. RML Hospital on Wednesday morning …
Spanish priest becomes 1st European to succumb to latest Ebola outbreak The World Health Organisation authorised on Tuesday the use of experimental drugs to fight Ebola as the death toll topped 1,000 and a Spanish priest became the first European to succumb to the latest outbreak. Japan aid agency pulls …
Liberia says it plans to treat two infected doctors with an unproven Ebola medicine called ZMapp People infected in the West Africa Ebola outbreak can be offered untested drugs, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday, but scarce supplies raise questions about who gets priority in the epidemic of the …
INDORE: At least 270 people have died of diarrhoea and 13.14 lakh people have been affected due to diarrhoea in the last three years in Madhya Pradesh. Data obtained from Directorate General of Health Services reveals that the numbers of diarrhoea cases in the state are continuously rising since past …
Untested drugs can be used to treat patients infected with the Ebola virus, the World Health Organization says. The WHO said it was ethical in light of the scale of the outbreak and high number of deaths - over 1,000 people have died in west Africa.. The statement was made …
Unicef and the World Health Organization yesterday began a four-day campaign to try to vaccinate 4 million children for polio in Iraq, a difficult task in a region ravaged by fighting. More than 600,000 children have been displaced by conflict, as fighters from Islamic State, an insurgent al-Qaeda offshoot in …
(Reuters) - The death toll from the worst ever outbreak of Ebola has reached 1,013 after another 52 people died in the three days to Aug. 9 in three West African countries, the World Health Organization said on Monday. The largest number of reported new deaths were in Liberia, where …
What is Ebola virus disease? Ebola virus disease is a se vere haemorrhagic fever caused by viral infection. The virus causes internal and ex ternal bleeding in humans and non-human primates like monkeys, gorillas and so on. The disease was first no ticed in 1976 when Sudan and the Democratic …
Overwhelmed west African nations called states of emergency on Thursday as the toll from a fast-spreading Ebola epidemic neared 1,000, and an elderly Spanish missionary was evacuated for treatment at home. Soldiers in Liberia’s Grand Cape Mount province one of the worst-affected were restricting movement towards the capital Monrovia, where …
The worst Ebola outbreak on record is an “extraordinary event” and a public health risk to other countries, the World Health Organization said. “The possible consequences of further international spread are particularly serious in view of the virulence of the virus,” the Geneva-based United Nations health agency said. “A coordinated …
A fast-spreading Ebola epidemic sparked a state of emergency in overwhelmed West African nations on Thursday as the death toll neared 1,000 and an elderly Spanish missionary was evacuated for treatment at home. In Liberia, where the dead lay in the streets, lawmakers gathered to ratify a state of emergency …
Five districts in Kerala will be included in a monitoring and epidemiological assessment conducted as part of the World Health Organisaton (WHO)'s global programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis. The study is being conducted in Ernakulam, Alappuzha, Kottayam, Kollam and Thrissur districts. The study is aimed to check the efficacy of …
In its bid to tackle sanitation and waste management issues in the country, the government on Wednesday decided to make India free from open defecation on a priority basis. At a high-level meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), which had senior officials from about 10 ministries, the government outlined …
Even as the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee, a regulatory panel under the environment ministry recommended field trial for 13 genetically modified crops last month, Poovulagin Nanbargal, a movement by environmentalists in the city has raised strong objections citing that such crops would harm both the environment and human health. Demanding …
