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 …
KANPUR: City based paediatrics advised parents to take extra care of their kids in winters to keep pneumonia at bay, on World Pneumonia day observed on November 12, every year. The experts also laid emphasis on strengthening immunity and resistance power to fight the killer disease. Commenting on pneumonia deaths …
We have built city roads only for cars to move. Cars rule the road I write this column from my bed, recovering from an accident that broke my bones. I was hit by a speeding car while cycling. The driver fled the scene of the accident in the car, leaving …
It isn’t just eye injuries, after Diwali hospitals and clinics in the city are also seeing a rise in the number of respiratory infections and allergy cases. City-based pulmonologists said that over the past two-three days such cases have gone up 10-20 per cent. “For the past two-three days I …
WHO has confi rmed an outbreak of at least ten cases of polio in Syria, where vaccination coverage has dramatically decreased during the civil war. Furthermore, wild-type poliovirus 1 (WPV1) has been isolated from sewage and faeces from asymptomatic carriers in Israel since February, 2013. Tourists and travellers could bring …
For years, mysterious epidemics of kidney disease have been simmering within agricultural hotspots in the developing world, from tropical El Salvador to the South Asian highlands of Sri Lanka and India. The deadly string of chronic kidney disease (CKD) outbreaks have barely made the news since it first struck farmers …
Choking winter smog blanketed the Indian capital New Delhi on Tuesday, rivalling some of the worst air pollution episodes in Chinese cities and at one point touching more than 31 times the international recommended limit for particles of dust and toxic liquids. Security guards and pedestrians wheezed audibly in the …
With large parts of the calamity-hit Ganjam struggling for access to safe drinking water, a mobile drinking water initiative has brought succour to the Phailin-hit populace. i-PURE, a mobile water treatment and electrification unit, has been drawing scores of villagers in the district ever since it was launched on November …
China’s already staggering pollution problems got worse this week as a shroud of smog engulfed northern industrial cities. In Harbin, which has a population of 11 million, the PM2.5 index -- a measure of the concentration of microscopic particulate matter in the air -- broke 1,000. The World Health Organization …
The National Immunisation Policy maybe in for a change with oral polio vaccines (OPV) being replaced by injectable polio vaccines (IPV), thanks to a WHO-funded clinical trial and research undertaken by the paediatric department of Andhra Medical College (AMC) on 300 newborns. AMC is one of the four medical centres …
A chronic shortage of natural gas is hurting China's plan to move away from burning coal to heat homes and offices, raising the prospect of more choking air pollution this winter and beyond. The problem is worst in northern China, where air pollution mainly caused by decades of reliance on …
The Bio-safety Core Committee may give approval for introduction of genetically modified brinjal, known as Bt brinjal, in the country on Monday. The committee could not reach any decision about the bt variety in its meeting on Sunday, Director General Rafiqul Islam Mondol of Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) said …
People of as many as 18 districts of Assam are prone to several water–borne diseases following a fact that arsenic in ground–water of these districts is found beyond permissible limit (0.05 mg/litre as per WHO norms). The Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department of Assam in a latest official communiqué submitted …
New Delhi: Severe undernutrition when diagnosed could mean at least two times higher odds of death in TB patients despite treatment, concluded a recent study which found shocking levels of malnutrition among rural TB patients. The study advocates nutritional support for TB patients, along with treatment to bring down mortality …
Beijing advised the young, elderly and ill among its 20 million people to stay indoors as a U.S. Embassy pollution monitor showed air quality at “hazardous” levels in the Chinese capital. Concentrations of PM2.5, fine air particulates that pose the greatest health risk, were 257 micrograms per cubic meter at …
After Delhi and Pune, now it is the turn of Mumbai to get its own model to predict the quality of air. System of Air Quality Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) scientists will soon install air quality monitoring stations in Mumbai for Rs 15 crore. "In the light of the recent …
The city has 4,578 cellphone towers that are yet to get the BMC's clearance. Calling it a serious issue, anti-radiation activist Girish Kumar said the "illegal" towers can pose a health hazard to thousands of people. But the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) called the towers legal. Its director …
At least 22 people are suspected of having polio in Syria, the first outbreak of the crippling viral disease in 14 years, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday. Most of those stricken with acute flaccid paralysis, a symptom of diseases including polio, in Deir al-Zor province are children …
China's residents' health at risk as air pollution levels in the city of Harbin reach off-the-chart levels Cityscapes shrouded in thick smog have become a common scene in China. Last winter, Beijing's 'airpocalypse' garnered headlines worldwide and generated much anger and debate within China. But this week, air pollution levels …
Over 9.3 lakh Indians with the world’s most dangerous airborne disease, tuberculosis, are currently undetected by the country’s health system, the World Health Organization’s World TB Report 2013 released on Wednesday said. Around 3 million people, equal to one in three people falling ill with TB, are not being detected …
Air quality in the Chinese cities of Beijing, Tianjin and the surrounding province of Hebei failed to meet government standards on 62.5 percent of days in the third quarter, the nation’s environmental ministry said. Seven of 10 Chinese cities with the worst air pollution during the three-month period ended in …
