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 …
Company says WHO prequalification is a key step for distribution of the vaccine in developed countries. Hyderabad-based biopharmaceutical company Biological E (BioE) on Monday said, the WHO has prequalified its Japanese Encephalitis vaccine for global use in adults. The company expects that paediatric indication will also be prequalified by the …
The disease, like SARS which had its origin in south-east Asia some years ago, has already claimed close to 90 lives. The Indian travel industry is still in denial on the impact that Middle-Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) could have on tourism. The disease, like SARS which had its origin in …
New Delhi/London : The pesticide that killed 23 Indian schoolchildren last week is a nerve poison banned by many countries because of what the World Health Organisation (WHO) describes as its “high acute toxicity”. As early as 2009, the United Nations health agency urged India to consider a ban on …
The pesticide that killed 23 Indian schoolchildren last week is a nerve poison banned by many countries because of what the World Health Organisation describes as its ‘high acute toxicity’. As early as 2009, the United Nations health agency urged India to consider a ban on the pesticide monocrotophos - …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has described the situation arising out of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) as “serious and of great concern” but said it did not constitute a public health emergency of international concern at present. The second meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by Director …
Despite having 14 million acres under crop cultivation in Sindh, over 71 per cent households in the province are food insecure — the highest level of food insecurity among the provinces and region, it emerged on Sunday. Of these food insecure households, 34pc are food insecure with moderate hunger and …
Tobacco may claim as many as 100 crore people around the world in this century unless and until the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is implemented quickly by all nations, reports BSS. According to a new WHO report released in Geneva yesterday, each year tobacco …
Tobacco may claim as many as 100 crore people around the world in this century unless and until the World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is implemented quickly by all nations. According to a new WHO report released in Geneva on Wednesday, each year tobacco kills an approximately …
Short-term exposure to major air pollutants appears to increase heart failure risks, according to a data review from 12 countries published in the medical journal The Lancet Wednesday. Researchers of the University of Edinburgh and Public Health Foundation of India among others reviewed the evidence linking air pollution and heart …
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Jaipur:The Rajasthan high court has sought the responses of Union and state governments on a PIL seeking a ban on production, storage and selling of cigarettes, bidi and all other tobacco products in the state. In a Public Interest Litigation filed by Rajasthan Jan Morcha, an NGO, it has been …
OSLO: Air pollution is shortening the lives of people in northern China by about 5.5 years compared to the south, a disastrous legacy of a policy that provided free coal for heating in the north, an international study shows. Environmental problems are a source of rising social discontent in China; …
High levels of air pollution will cause 500 million people to lose an aggregate 2.5 billion years from their lives Air pollution causes people in northern China to live an average of 5.5 years shorter than their southern counterparts, according to a study released on Monday which claims to show …
Tobacco Control Cell (TCC) of Federal Health Ministry Pakistan has disclosed the increase of trend of usage of tobacco across the country as 1,200 children of aged 6 to 15 are becoming smokers every day while 274 people are dying every day through regular smoking. The TCC in its awareness …
The health effects of air pollution have been underestimated and Europe should revisit its laws to tackle the problem, UN scientists have concluded after a major review of new evidence. Sixty international scientists, commissioned by the World Health Organization, analysed eight years of studies to see how minute specks of …
Poor air quality linked to premature deaths, with London one of the worst cities in Europe for some pollutants The health effects of air pollution have been underestimated and Europe should review its laws to tackle the problem, UN scientists have concluded after a major review of new evidence. Sixty …
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre on a public interest writ petition to take immediate and adequate steps to prescribe stringent emission standards on all parameters such as particulate matter, nitrogen oxide, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide for both petrol and diesel vehicles so as to control …
Govt-Set Radiation Standard Questioned Agovernment-sponsored study into Mumbaikars’ complaints against cellphone tower radiation has found 95% of the towers to be safe. Experts have questioned the study on the grounds that the government-prescribed radiation safety level is higher than that of several countries like Germany, Russia and China. They also …
The unrelenting noise from the rising vehicular traffic around schools in the City has an immediate cause for worry: Reduced attention span and memory in elementary school children, as established again by a recent study conducted in partnership with the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB). The effect of traffic …
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre on a public interest writ petition to take immediate and adequate steps to prescribe stringent emission standards on all parameters such as particulate matter, nitrogen oxide, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide for both petrol and diesel vehicles so as to control …
