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 World Health Organisation on July 03 urged over 30 countries, including some of the world's richest, to recognise the continued danger of tuberculosis and try to wipe it out by 2050. Although TB is preventable and curable, a total of 155,000 people still fall ill with the disease every …
A FRESH concern has been raised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) over the evolution of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, which it said remains a serious concern as primary and secondary viral transmissions continue to occur in both urban and rural communities. …
Ludhiana the world’s most polluted city according to the World Health Organization (WHO) — will now attempt to break an environmental record, for the most tree saplings planted in an hour, as part of ‘Earth Hour’ celebrations on July 20. While the current record, as per the Guinness Book of …
LUCKNOW: About 16 people die and 58 are injured every hour in India due to road accidents - the death rate, in fact, is equivalent to wiping out about 40 per cent of the population of a small nation like Maldives in a year. And Delhi has the highest number …
West African countries and international health organizations adopted a fresh strategy on Thursday to fight the world's deadliest Ebola epidemic, which has killed hundreds of people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. At a two-day meeting in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, officials committed to better surveillance to detect cases of …
THE need for governments globally to ensure that mothers and babies, especially those in the rural communities, get the quality healthcare they need to survive, has become a source of concern to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Also, the need for governments to provide the relevant tools that would …
A U.S.-based Japanese scientist said Wednesday he has succeeded in engineering a version of the so-called swine flu virus that would be able to evade the human immune system. The research on the 2009 H1N1 virus at a high-security lab at the University of Wisconsin, Madison has not yet been …
Beijing's fine-particulate pollutant intensity is expected to drop to the internationally recognised safe level in 16 years, environmental authorities said. Pan Tao, head of the Beijing Municipal Research Institute of Environmental Protection, said the concentration of 2.5 particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrograms or less per cubic metre …
The number of deaths attributed to an epidemic of Ebola virus in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone stood at 467 by Monday, out of 759 known cases in total, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. The outbreak of the deadly disease is already the largest and deadliest ever, …
Here’s some good news for those concerned about radiations from telecom towers. The Centre has fixed the Electro-Magnetic Radiation (EMR) emission levels below 0.45w/m2, which is one-tenth of the norms (4.5w/m2) fixed by the World Health Organisation (WHO). This way India ranks among the countries with lowest emission levels. This …
The World Health Organization (WHO) said it has intensified its response to the cholera outbreak in South Sudan after 63 people have lost their lives and 2,340 people treated for the disease. WHO said steps have been taken to conduct comprehensive investigation following up all contact of the cases. "As …
China is turning to aerial drones to monitor pollution, with its biggest mission to date finding illegal emissions by some of the largest industrial companies in the country’s northern provinces. A unit of Hebei Iron & Steel Group (000709), China’s No. 1 steelmaker, Shanxi Huaze Aluminum & Power Co., and …
Antibiotic resistance has been selected as the focus for a £10m prize set up to tackle a major challenge of our time. Six themes were initially identified by organisers of the Longitude Prize; these were then put to a public vote. The winning theme was announced on the BBC's One …
A lot of people rely on groundwater in the Kathmandu Valley, which has been reeling under acute water scarcity, especially during the dry season. But experts have warned that groundwater in the valley has high concentration of ammonia, which may cause long-term health hazards. Ammonia in water means possible bacterial, …
In India, traffic accidents are not on the health agenda. It's high time the agenda was changed. When Gopinath Munde, the Union minister for rural development, met with a tragic accident on the road in Delhi, the issue was highlighted. Even so, there is little understanding of the seriousness of …
Xiong Demin could not have foreseen that the mine he worked at for 32 years would leave his home village poisoned and hundreds of residents, including himself and his wife, stricken with cancer. The 71-year-old retired mechanic and his wife, Wen Jin'e, both suffer from cancer, which they blame on …
The deadliest-ever outbreak of the Ebola virus has surged in West Africa after slowing briefly, and the pandemic is now "out of control," according to Doctors Without Borders. Nearly 600 infections and 340 Ebola-related deaths have been recorded in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the most since the virus was …
AURANGABAD: Drinking water samples taken from nine talukas in the district put nine of the 858 gram panchayats (GP) under the red zone category, which means that these GPs failed to provide clean and potable water. A report on the quality of drinking water was made by the health department …
Experts and medical professionals expressed their concern over the prevalence of arsenic, saying arsenicosis was a silent killer Bangladesh has been conducting arsenic mitigation programmes since 1993 but more than 22 million people are still exposed to arsenic contamination, said speakers at a seminar yesterday. Nearly 43,000 to 56,000 people …
The number of people killed by the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa has risen to 337, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. Fourteen deaths and 47 new cases were reported across the region over the last week, it added. Guinea is worst-affected with 264 Ebola-related deaths. In Sierra …
