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 …
SIERRA Leone raised its death toll from the highly contagious Ebola virus on Monday, sparking fears that the deadly epidemic gripping west Africa is spreading. Health ministry spokesman Yaya Tunis said one more patient had been killed by the tropical pathogen since the government announced a death toll of four …
According to internationally recognised and reliably independent research website, the Numbeo, Lahore is suffering with noise pollution measured 66.67 dB (decibel) which is ‘risky’ for the physical and psychological health of Lahorites. Interestingly, level of noise pollution in Lahore is comparatively less than that of Paris and Istanbul, where it …
A cheap and easy to deliver oral vaccine against cholera is 86 per cent effective in preventing the infection which causes severe diarrhea and can be fatal, researchers said today. Some 1.4 billion people around the globe were at risk for cholera in 2012, according to World Health Organisation (WHO). …
Almost a third of the world is now fat, and no country has been able to curb obesity rates in the last three decades, according to a new global analysis. Researchers found more than 2 billion people worldwide are now overweight or obese. The highest rates were in the Middle …
‘Four hundred cases have been reported from the city’. Four confirmed measles deaths in the past four months have stirred the State Health Department into action with health officials holding a meeting on Thursday to chalk out the way forward to prevent the spread of this highly contagious disease. While …
Pune: Do you often complain that the water supply to your area is too less? If yes, you would be surprised to know that barring a few fringe areas of the city, most water ‘auditors’ concur that housing societies in Pune receive an average of 150 litres a day per …
Alarmed with three cases of death reported over the last four months along with a spurt in measles cases, Delhi government has started an exercise to identify the high risk zones in the national capital to control the spread of the disease. Delhi's Department of Family Welfare has also sent …
15% students aged 13-15 use tobacco in Southeast Asia The prevalence of tobacco use is increasing among young people in Southeast Asia, with nearly 15% of students aged 13-15 years using some form of tobacco in the region. The finding was disclosed in a press release by the World Health …
The High Power Committee on Air and Water Pollution, set up by Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung earlier this month, has asked Secretaries of various Ministries as well as noted environmentalist Sunita Narain to attend its second meeting, scheduled for May 28. The committee was set up days after World Health Organization …
Shanghai warned children and the elderly to stay indoors as smog engulfed the city, sending PM2.5 levels to seven times what the World Health Organization recommends for daily exposure. The air quality index was 225 as of 9 a.m., signaling “heavy pollution,” the third worst in a six-tier warning system, …
Five people have died in Sierra Leone's first confirmed outbreak of Ebola virus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday. Ebola, a haemorrhagic fever with a fatality rate of up to 90 percent, has killed more than 100 people in neighbouring Guinea and Liberia since March in the first …
Emission Up By 30%, Particulate Matter By 11.5% In 4 Years Jayashree Nandi Emissions of fine particulate matter or PM2.5 in Delhi have increased by 11.5% over the past four years, according to a GIS-based inventory prepared by Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), an autonomous body under the ministry …
NIGERIANS are now living longer by eight years even as coronary (ischaemic) heart disease, lower respiratory infections (such as pneumonia) and stroke top the list of 20 major causes of premature deaths globally. According to the World Health Statistics 2014 published at the weekend by the World Health Organisation (WHO), …
Central Pollution Control Board chairman Susheel Kumar on Monday said that he had written to the chief secretary in April asking him to urgently formulate an air pollution action plan. Susheel Kumar said air pollution levels in Delhi are a serious concern and need to be tackled quickly. He clarified …
Three new polio cases confirmed from Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) on Monday have taken the total polio case count this year to 66. The virology laboratory at National Institute of Health (NIH) Islamabad has confirmed the presence of P1 strain of the wild poliovirus in three children of the …
Laamu atoll to set benchmark for climate change development, says UNDP thumbnail The United Nations in Maldives launched its new project, the ‘Low Emission Climate Resilient Development (LECReD) Programme’ in Fonadhoo, Laamu atoll yesterday (May 18). Azusa Kubota, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) representative, said the ambitious programme would set …
Cholera has broken out in the capital of South Sudan where five months of civil war has left thousands homeless and disrupted food supplies and health services, according to the World Health Organization. WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said on Monday nine people were believed to have died of cholera, which …
Climate change affects the social and environmental determinants of health clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food and secure shelter. Global warming that has occurred since the 1970s caused over 140 000 excess deaths annually by the year 2004. According to a WHO report, the direct damage costs to health …
The government on Thursday announced that residents of its Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) would not be able to travel to other parts of the country without getting vaccinated against polio. The move came days after Pakistan said it would set up mandatory immunisation points at airports to help stop …
Thiruvananthapuram: The spread of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus in Saudi Arabia, which has claimed the lives of 150 people so far, has not attained the proportions of a global health emergency till now, clarified the World Health Organisation (WHO). This comes in the backdrop of rising concerns regarding …
