In India, a country with a vast population and a diverse socio-economic fabric, healthcare remains fraught with challenges including disparities in access. These socio-economic disparities are deep, and they influence health outcomes. It is imperative to bridge these gaps amid the ongoing epidemiological, nutritional and demographic transitions that are bringing …
Food-borne diseases kill an estimated two million people annually, including many children, in developing countries, the World Health Organisation said as people yesterday observed the World Health Day. “Food contaminants, such as harmful parasites, bacteria, viruses, prions, chemical or radioactive substances, cause more than 200 diseases -- ranging from infectious …
Archit Watts Tribune News Service Muktsar, April 6 A survey report of the Health Department stated that above 42 per cent of the water samples collected from Muktsar, last year, were not potable. Of the total 354 water samples collected, 149 failed the test. Some of these samples were of …
Rubbish Panel Views On Cancer Deaths Doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), which runs one of the busiest cancer centres in the country, rubbished the report of a parliamentary panel chief who said there was no Indian study to prove that the use of tobacco is …
Australia's coal industry is driving increases in air pollution according to a new analysis which names coal mining as the dominant source of air particle pollution. Environment and health groups are calling for new laws to curb rising pollution from toxic substances and "hefty penalties" for companies that breach pollution …
The Health Ministry today postponed indefinitely the enforcement of tougher anti-tobacco pack warnings it had notified in October last year for implementation from April 1 this year. The postponement came in the form of a “corrigendum” to the ministry’s October 2014 notification which required the tobacco industry to print pictorial …
Doctors and other health professionals have added their weight to the campaign for an immediate moratorium on fracking in the UK as a new report from health charity Medact warns that exploratory drilling for shale gas poses a serious risk to public health. The report - Health & fracking: the …
Two Japanese professors will be awarded the 2015 Canada Gairdner International Awards, an esteemed medical research prize considered to be a good predictor of future Nobel Prize winners, the Gairdner Foundation said Wednesday. The two are Yoshinori Osumi, a 70-year-old honorary professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Shimon Sakaguchi, …
Monsanto has called for the World Health Organisation’s cancer agency to retract a report that found that glyphosate, the world’s most widely-used herbicide, a “probable carcinogen”. Brett Begemann, chief operating officer of the world’s largest seed maker, told a media conference call that the WHO study “contradicts decades” of well-established …
The UN's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) said Friday (20 March) that three pesticides, including the popular weed killer Roundup, were "probably" carcinogenic and two others, which have already been outlawed or restricted, were "possibly" so. IARC classified the herbicide glyphosate – the active ingredient in Roundup – …
Monsanto Co. escalated its criticism of a World Health Organization agency’s finding last week that a commonly used herbicide probably has the potential to cause cancer in humans. The St. Louis-based agribusiness giant—a major seller of the weed killer—sought a meeting with senior WHO officials on the International Agency for …
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The air quality report on the Riverton dump fire, commissioned by the Health Ministry, shows that the samples of air pollutants taken from the site contained high levels of hazardous substances including benzene. According to a release from the ministry, the samples were taken during the period …
Air pollution has been linked to a dangerous narrowing of neck arteries that occurs prior to strokes, according to researchers at New York Univerity's Langone Medical Centre. The scientists analysed medical test records for more than 300,000 people living in New York, New Jersey or Connecticut. Dwellings, identified by zip …
A global anti-tobacco conference that ended yesterday urged countries to take steps to reduce the consumption of tobacco, which it said was a leading cause of disease and death worldwide. In its final declaration, the 16th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health in Abu Dhabi also called for wider implementation …
4 years after a tsunami caused devastation and a nuclear disaster in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, life is far from restored for the local residents evacuated from the area. Justin McCurry reports.
The Central Information Commission has pulled up the environment ministry for providing "false and misleading" information that it had conducted no study on the harmful effects of mobile radiations. It has also asked the ministry to explain why it has allowed unrestricted installation of mobile towers and not formulated any …
Health experts have expressed shock and dismay over the Delhi high court's refusal to ban sale of junk food in schools. They claim that putting `restrictions', the suggested option, cannot help curb the menace which is associated with three of the four major non communicable diseases--cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers and …
NEW DELHI: The link between air pollution and respiratory diseases is well known, but foul air may be causing cases of depression too. Michael Brauer, professor at School of Population and Public Health at University of British Columbia who specializes in air pollution studies, told TOI that scientists are increasingly …
Presentation by Bart E Croes, chief of the Research Division for the California Air Resources Board at the Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.
Presentation by Kirk R. Smith, University of California-Berkeley and Nicholas Lam, University of Illinois-Urbana at the Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.
