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 …
In a startling revelation, an analysis for the Global burden of Diseases has suggested that estimates of the number of people living with HIV are 18•7 per cent smaller than UNAIDS’s estimates in 2012. The number of people living with malaria is larger than estimated by WHO. Significantly, the number …
The United Nations expressed concern about the possible spread of polio in the war-ravaged countries of Syria and Iraq and beyond on Tuesday despite the biggest vaccination campaign undertaken in the history of the Middle East. A report by the World Health Organization and Unicef said that 36 children had …
Researchers in Saudi Arabia said Tuesday they have found genetic traces of the dangerous Middle East respiratory virus, MERS-CoV, in the air of a barn that housed a sick camel. The study in mBio, the journal of the American Society for Microbiology, calls for further research to determine if the …
PESHAWAR: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that gastrointestinal diseases, acute respiratory infection and unexplained fever are on the rise among the internally displaced persons (IDPs) of North Waziristan Agency, living in Bannu district. The world health agency has called for urgent coordinated measures to safeguard more than 992,990 …
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nation International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have reported significant progress in their quest for universal health coverage with more than 111 million infants receiving vaccines in 2013 to protect them from deadly diseases. According to new estimates released yesterday by the UN agencies, …
The research and advocacy organisation Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has called for a ban on junk food in schools and the regulation of advertisements promoting its consumption. Children are not the best judges of their food and they are aggressively targeted by advertisements and attracted by celebrity endorsements, …
The government today said the World Health Organisation's (WHO) recent report describing Delhi as the most polluted city in the world by considering estimated data for fine dust in a select manner was "improper". On the other hand, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said, the ambient air quality, which is regularly …
He wore thick black eyeliner to ward off the evil eye, but one-yearold Vivek had nonetheless fallen victim to malnutrition. His parents seemed to be doing all the right things. His family had six goats, access to fresh buffalo milk and a hut filled with hundreds of pounds of wheat …
London is projected to fail European air quality limits until at least 2030, posing a risk to the health of its residents, and missing a compliance deadline by two decades. The capital will still have 25 kilometers (16 miles) of roads breaching nitrogen dioxide limits in 2030, and compliance will …
Government on Wednesday rejected studies of WHO and Yale University which talked about India and its cities being among the most polluted, asserting that the parameters for determining air pollution were not considered by them. Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said pollution is caused by many factors and the survey …
Parasites infected with malaria can hide inside the bone marrow and evade the body's defences, research confirms. The discovery could lead to new drugs or vaccines to block transmission. The research, published in Science Translational Medicine, fills a "key knowledge gap" in the biology of the disease, say scientists at …
An expert panel was convened in October 2013 by the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) to discuss the field of probiotics. It is now 13 years since the definition of probiotics and 12 years after guidelines were published for regulators, scientists and industry by the Food and …
According to this WHO report 28 million people die each year from Non-communicable diseases in developing countries, mainly from cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases, and diabetes Current global mortality from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) remains unacceptably high and is increasing. Thirty-eight million people die each year from NCDs, mainly from …
KATHMANDU: Noncommunicable diseases, also known as chronic diseases, are a major public health problem with a large number of people having at least one risk factor, according to a report of a survey conducted by the Nepal Health Research Council with the support of the Ministry of Health and Population …
A WHO statement said that Sierra Leone accounted for 14 deaths and 34 of the 50 new cases Health officials in West Africa say 25 more people have died from Ebola since 3 July, taking the total number of deaths to 518. The World Health Organization (WHO) said 50 new …
More than 650,000 children worldwide develop tuberculosis each year, research in the journal Lancet Global Health suggests. The figure stands almost 25% higher than current predictions made by the World Health Organization. Scientists say health officials may be missing an "enormous opportunity" to prevent the disease from spreading. The World …
Genetic testing can help prevent breast cancer. The test is yet to gain popularity in India. Dr Devinder Singh Sandhu, oncologist and haematologist, attended a conference at the US recently. He said: “If you have a family history or have had high-risk benign breast disease in the past, talk to …
Delhi's air pollution measures like introducing compressed natural gas, building the Metro and moving polluting industries outside city limits have been praised universally. But evidence has now emerged that, since these interventions, areas bordering the city have been experiencing very poor air quality. As polluting industries, built-up area and population …
State Records 677 Cases After Maha's 963; Stagnant Water Intensifies Problem In what is certain to cause concern among health officials, Tamil Nadu has recorded the most number of dengue cases in the country after Maharashtra between January 1 and June 30 this year. Statistics from the National Vector Borne …
