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 …
Kashmir being one of the most favourite international tourist destinations, doctors here have warned that the Valley is more vulnerable than any other state to pandemic viruses like Ebola, which has so for claimed more than 900 lives in West Africa and is spreading to other countries as well. Claiming …
The World Health Organization will convene a panel of medical ethicists next week to explore the use of experimental treatments for Ebola amid the worst outbreak of the disease on record. An experimental antibody cocktail developed by Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. was used to treat two infected American health workers whose …
Health workers in West Africa appealed on Wednesday for urgent help in controlling the world's worst Ebola outbreak as the death toll climbed to 932 and Liberia declared a state of emergency. "The government and people of Liberia require extraordinary measures for the very survival of our state and for …
Beijing ordered official vehicles off the road and urged people to take public transport to ensure smog-free skies for a preparatory meeting ahead of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in November. The Chinese capital cut government car use by 70 percent for 16 days starting today to clean up the …
Three of the world's leading Ebola specialists called on Tuesday for experimental drugs and vaccines to be offered to people in West Africa, where a vast outbreak of the deadly disease is raging in three countries. Noting that American aid workers who contracted the disease in Liberia were given an …
Early next week, WHO will convene a panel of medical ethicists to explore the use of experimental treatment in the ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Currently there is no registered medicine or vaccine against the virus, but there are several experimental options under development. The recent treatment of two …
KARACHI: The air of the city is polluted with high levels of lead and cadmium that pose a grave risk to public health, says a recent study that also points out that the average concentration of these trace metals found in residential areas of Karachi is higher than those found …
The World Bank has announced that it is allocating $200m (£120m) in emergency assistance for West African countries battling to contain the Ebola outbreak. The money will be distributed to the governments of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea as well as to the World Health Organization (WHO). The number of …
WHO recommends prompt diagnosis and quinine plus clindamycin for treatment of uncomplicated malaria in the first trimester and artemisinin-based combination therapies in subsequent trimesters. We undertook a systematic review of women's access to and healthcare provider adherence to WHO case management policy for malaria in pregnant women.
The extensive use of antibiotics in the poultryindustry will make people antibiotic resistant. “This would mean that doctors will not be able to prescribe mild antibiotics when a person gets an infection since he will be already be antibiotic resistant,“ said Dr Syam Sunder, chief consultant at the general hospital …
On 5 May 2014 the Director-General declared the international spread of wild poliovirus in 2014 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) under the International Health Regulations [IHR 2005], issued Temporary Recommendations to reduce the international spread of wild poliovirus, and requested a reassessment of this situation by the …
The World Health Organisation is launching a $100 million (59.25 million pounds) response plan to combat an "unprecedented" outbreak of Ebola in West Africa that has killed 729 people out of 1,323 infected since February, the U.N. agency said on Thursday. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan will meet in Conakry, Guinea …
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) lab study found residues of antibiotics in 40 per cent of the samples of chicken that were tested. Large-scale unregulated use of antibiotics in the poultry industry could be contributing to Indians developing resistance to antibiotics and falling prey to a host of …
Efforts to develop the first new malaria treatment in 20 years advanced as a pill from Novartis AG (NOVN) cleared parasites faster than the best medicines, potentially providing a solution to the spread of drug resistance. In a study among 21 patients in Thailand, Novartis’s KAE609 wiped out half the …
Drug-resistant malaria parasites have spread to border regions of Southeast Asia, seriously threatening global efforts to control and eliminate the mosquito-borne disease, researchers said on Wednesday. The scientists, who analysed blood samples from 1,241 malaria patients in 10 countries across Asia and Africa, found resistance to the world's most effective …
The European Union said Wednesday it is allocating €2 million to fight the spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa, with the money going to support the World Health Organization, Doctors Without Borders, and the International Committee of the Red Cross. The EU also issued an advisory to people …
Ten regional laboratories will be established under the National Communicable Disease Centre (NCDC) for viral hepatitis surveillance across the country. These centres will assess the burden of the disease and provide lab support for investigating outbreak. This was announced by the Union Health secretary Lov Verma in the Capital recently …
Sierra Leone is now the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak, which is shifting away from its source in neighboring Guinea, Doctors Without Borders said. The group is scaling up its response in Sierra Leone, where 22 international and 250 local staff are working, the medical organization said on its website. …
With a rise in number of dengue patients, scientists at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) have urged Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to send blood samples of suspected dengue cases within five days of infection to make it easier to identify the serotype. “Identifying the serotype is challenging if samples …
FANS of the China model frequently say that, for all the disadvantages of a one-party state, there are also benefits. Enforcing basic health care is one—and by no means a small one. Last year China’s mortality rate for children under five years old was just one-fifth the rate it was …
