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 Health Ministry yesterday revealed that 23 malaria patients had been recorded for the whole of last year in the country. However 70 patients with malaria had also arrived from other countries within the same year. The spokesman for the Health Ministry said that the number of internal malaria patients …
Two years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, an international team of experts said Thursday that residents of areas hit by the highest doses of radiation face an increased cancer risk so small it probably won’t be detectable. In fact, experts calculated the increase at about 1 extra percentage point added …
People living near the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan have an increased risk of developing some cancers, the World Health Organization says. The increased risk is limited to communities and some emergency workers exposed to radiation from the 2011 disaster, analysis shows. But for those living in the rest of …
Air quality in China's capital, Beijing, has once again hit serious levels, with thick smog and a sandstorm blanketing the city. State news agency Xinhua, quoting officials, said the pollution levels were "dangerous". Beijing's environment agency blamed large amounts of dust blowing in on strong winds from Inner Mongolia, and …
The air quality in Beijing and nearby regions hit dangerous levels Thursday, Beijing's environmental authorities said. Strong winds and smog hit Beijing on Feb 28, 2013. [Photo/Xinhua] Calm winds, temperature inversion, pollutants transformed from eastern and southern regions and large-scale dust from Inner Mongolia are behind the hazardous air pollution …
There are many forms of air pollution. There is no doubt that air pollution is not healthy. The uncertainty is at what level is it an acceptable risk. The one of concern in this study is the finest of particulate matter. The largest study yet to investigate the links between …
Man-made chemicals in everyday products are likely to be at least the partial cause of a global surge in birth deformities, hormonal cancers and psychiatric diseases, a U.N.-sponsored research team reported on Tuesday. These substances, dubbed EDCs, could also be linked to a decline in the human male sperm count …
Typhoid has broken out in an opposition-held region of Syria due to people drinking contaminated water from the Euphrates River, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. An estimated 2,500 people in northeastern Deir al-Zor province are infected with the contagious disease, which causes diarrhoea and can be fatal, …
The Environment Ministry has announced that it will recommend the public do not venture outside unless necessary on days on which fine particulate air pollution is high. Particulate air pollution is believed to be coming from China to Japan. The smog has been dubbed PM2.5 in Japan. These particles, which …
Air pollution is now the fifth largest killer in India, says the Global Burden of Disease report released by the scientists behind this study at a dialogue workshop organised by CSE, Indian Council of Medical Research and US-based Health Effects Institute. Findings released by the scientists behind the study at …
Survey has identified 282 malnourished childrenin 26 slums of the district World Vision, a development and advocacy organisation, has implemented a project to tackle child malnutrition in Coimbatore since January. It has been taken up in collaboration with Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), a Central Government-sponsored social welfare scheme. The …
Delhi reported 3 deaths this week, 132 persons died from January 1 to February 6 Even as H1N1 cases are on the rise, the Union Health Ministry has said the situation is well under control and is being monitored. Delhi has reported three deaths this past week, while 132 deaths …
Parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhawa, Gadap Town Karachi, and Hyderabad have been transmitting poliovirus to other parts of the country apart from closure of last year’s polio case tally by confirming that a total of 58 polio cases were recorded during the year 2012, a massive reduction of 71 per cent …
Five non-government organisations working among the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster on Thursday stated that high levels of Dioxins and Furans were released from the Ramky waste incinerator at Pithampur near Indore during four trial runs between July 2010 and June 2012 and charged the Madhya Pradesh government …
20 deaths reported since January 13 Worried over the rising number of deaths due to swine flu this year, Punjab has put a formal query to the National Centre for Disease Control on the possibility of a change in the causative virus. Swine flu has claimed 20 lives in the …
Disease Affecting More Women Than Men, Reveals ICMR Study Lucknow: Oncologists in the country see Uttar Pradesh as the emerging cancer capital of India. Findings of the Population Based Cancer Registry functioning under the National Cancer Registry Programme of Indian Council of Medical Research, suggest that UP accounts for more …
The Sindh health department in its preliminary report on measles outbreak has revealed that a total of 88 children have died of the disease in Sindh over the past five weeks. The report was submitted to Health Minister Dr Sagheer Ahmed by Dr Ashfaque Memon, former additional health secretary (technical) …
Residents of the Indian capital, who thought they had conquered air pollution a decade ago, are once again choking on exhaust fumes and dust and New Delhi has regained its status as one of the world’s dirtiest cities, according to environmental campaigners and official air quality data. Scientists have sounded …
A government scientist said on Friday that air quality in New Delhi has worsened this week and is now "very poor," although it should not be compared to China's capital which has been reeling recently under massive pollution. Gurfan Baig of the state-run Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology said that …
Xpert, the quick test for tuberculosis already endorsed by WHO, has been found accurate for TB including drug-resistant strains, according to a new study publsihed in The Cochrane Library. WHO in 2010 endorsed the two-hour, molecular diagnostic TB test, which requires little skilled expertise. With the cost of the test …
