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 Supreme Court today sought the Centre’s response to a PIL seeking abolition of diesel subsidy and creation of an environmental police department to crack down on polluting vehicles as part of measures to improve the air quality in cities across the country which have become “virtual gas chambers.” A …
The Supreme Court on Monday sought response of the Centre on a PIL that showed Delhi’s air contains critical levels of particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide, estimated by the WHO to be more than 30 times of the permissible global standards. Issuing notice to the Centre and Central …
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre on a PIL which claimed that Indian cities were among the world's worst polluted and sought enforcement of stringent Euro V pollution norms for motor vehicles and creation of an environment police force to enforce emission norms. A bench of …
Exporters seek govt help as a close vigil by the US raises costs and obstructs sales Basmati rice exports to the US have plunged because many Indian firms are under an import alert by the US authorities, leading to a detailed scrutiny for pesticide residue in every grain being shipped …
Nearly 10 million more people infected with the AIDS virus now meet medical standards for receiving HIV drugs, according to revised U.N. guidelines released on Sunday, which experts say could avert 6.5 million deaths or new infections by 2025. But achieving this goal will be a challenge, as it will …
On May 4, 2013, the ministry of health of VietNam suspended Quinvaxem, the pentavalent combination used in that country, after it had caused 12 deaths and nine non-fatal serious adverse events (3). On investigating the reactions caused by the vaccine, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the nine non-fatal …
The continued success in global tobacco control is detailed in this year’s WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2013. The fourth in the series, this year’s report presents the status of the MPOWER measures, with country-specific data updated and aggregated through 2012. In addition, the report provides a special …
In yet another twist to the Ranbaxy scandal, the drug regulatory authority of the UK government has issued a statement clarifying that they have found no evidence that any of Ranbaxy’s products in the UK market “are or have been of unacceptable quality”. The World Health Organisation (WHO) had issued …
The doctors at a private hospital recently diagnosed a 23-day-old child with life-threatening ‘blue baby syndrome’ caused by consumption of contaminated water. They found that the baby, from Dhamori Khurd village in Gautam Budh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, was being fed packagedformula milk mixed in water from the borewell, …
Amid concerns over radiation from cell phone towers, government on Friday called for research proposals to study the possible impact of electromagnetic frequency radiation on humans and living organisms. The call for proposals by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) comes in the wake of conflicting reports on the …
The World Health Organization has, for the first time in 40 years, issued interim guidance for the use of a new Tuberculosis drug — Bedaquiline. The drug was granted approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last year. As per a press statement issued by the WHO on …
WHO estimates that up to half a million new cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) occur worldwide, each year. Current treatment regimens for MDR-TB present many challenges: treatment lasts 20 months or more, requiring daily administration of drugs that are more toxic, less effective, and far more expensive than those used …
Testing every person in India’s billion plus population for HIV will be cost-effective. The first ever study to gauge the benefit of universal HIV testing in India every five years has found that testing the general population just once would be “very cost-effective” because it would cost $1,100 per year …
Burning coal also costs companies and governments billions of pounds in disease treatment and lost working days Air pollution from Europe's 300 largest coal power stations causes 22,300 premature deaths a year and costs companies and governments billions of pounds in disease treatment and lost working days, says a major …
The world produces 4 billion tonnes of food every year, enough to feed its 7 billion people. Yet, every seventh person on earth sleeps hungry. Is it only because we waste 30-50 percent of our food? Or do 2.6 million children die of malnutrition every year because another 40 million …
Maternal and child malnutrition in low-income and middle-income countries encompasses both undernutrition and a growing problem with overweight and obesity. Low body-mass index, indicative of maternal undernutrition, has declined somewhat in the past two decades but continues to be prevalent in Asia and Africa. Prevalence of maternal overweight has had …
Aizawl: Tobacco presently kills nearly six million people every year and the WHO estimated that the weed will take times of more than eight million by 2030. World No Tobacco Day (WNTD), which is observed on May 31 is meant to encourage a 24-hour period of abstinence from all forms …
Though India’s latest tobacco control step of mandating films with smoking scenes to carry statutory warnings introduced last year is hailed as one of the best practices under the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the exemption for tobacco advertisements and promotion at the point of …
GUWAHATI, May 30: Tobacco use is the biggest cause of death, disease and disability. The death clock of tobacco strikes every six seconds globally killing 10 lakh Indians every year. This year, the theme for World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is Ban Tobacco Advertising, Promotion and Sponsorship. The WHO Framework …
Rajasthan bagged two out of five WHO director general's World No Tobacco Day awards in South East Asia region for its tobacco control efforts on Thursday. The directorate of medical and health services (DMHS) and city-based oncologist Dr Rakesh Gupta are among the five recipients for their efforts in tobacco …
