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 …
Health authorities yesterday ordered hospitals and other medical centers across the country to suspend inoculations with three kinds of vaccines following the death of an infant after receiving them. According to police, the two-month-old baby girl named Chung Ha-eun was discovered dead Sunday morning at her home, about 19 hours …
The Delhi Government will be presenting awards to 20 doctors working in the State, to give them due recognition for their academic efficiency, contribution towards the development of the insitution, medical fraternity and a healthy social life of the community.
The Drugs Controller -General of India (DCI) has cleared export licences amounting to 39,262 kg and 5,000 tablets of sildenafil citrate, the active ingredient that goes into Pfizer's anti-impotence wonder drug , Viagra.
Organisers of the 12th Annual World AIDS conference marked the official opening on Sunday with a call for greater emphasis on the use of resources already available in the fight against the deadly disease. The organisers said at a news conference that the focus of this year's gathering would be …
The Kerala Chief Minister, Mr E K Nayanar, has agreed to convene an all-party meeting on the lines of a similar exercise by Tamil Nadu to discuss ways for protecting the State's interest in the raging dispute over the Mullapperiyar dam.
A terminally-ill cancer patient has sued Sri Lanka's premier cigarette company for allegedly causing his ailment by making him a cigarette addict and claimed Rs 2.5 million in damages.
the use of catalytic converter has significantly contributed to the global warming, according to the Environmental Protection Agency ( epa ). For the last 20 years, these devices have extensively been used to reduce smog from cars. The device breaks down compounds of nitrogen and oxygen from car exhausts that …
cancer, the universally-dreaded disease, could soon be eradicated. In a recent development, scientists tested two new drugs they claim can cure laboratory mice injected with the disease. And if all goes well, the first cancer patient could be injected with these drugs well within a year. Some cancer experts say …
tens of millions of tuberculosis ( tb ) patients worldwide are facing a serious risk to their lives. They may succumb to the disease even before medical science comes up with a better vaccine or more effective antibiotic treatments. Barry Bloom of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New …
The Delhi High Court has issued notices to several government organisations after hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL). The PIL has sought to protect people in Delhi from serious health hazards due to the 6,000 tonnes of fly-ash generated every day by the three power stations. The PIL says fly-ash …
Study : In what is claimed to be first India study on the spread of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases, through the highrisk group of jail inmates , an associate professor of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences has found about a fourth of the male inmates at the …
In an era when cigratte advertising is under attack worldwide, tobacco companies will see an end to their unusally blunt sales pitch: Smoke more, get a prize. But soon, giveaway promotions by cigratte makers will be banned in the city , when a new public health legislation takes effect.
The manufacturer of the entire world supply of quinacrine pellets, used to chemically sterilize women in developing nations, said it will no longer make the pellets. The decision by Sipharm Sissein Ag, a closely held firm based in Sissein, Switzerland, follows a one page article in the Wall Street Journal …
Fewer than 30 per cent of voters participated in Portugal's first referendum, effectively rendering the vote - on abortion - null and void. More than 50 per cent of eligible citizens were required to make the ballot binding. The high absentation rate, projected by exit polls at 70 to 80 …
Nearly three months after approving Viagra, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had received about 100 reports of men suffering serious adverse reactions or dying after taking the impotence drug, but regulators remain convinced Viagra is safe.
The tobacco lobby in the State is up against the Anti-smoking Bill introduced in the Meghalaya Assembly last week giving rise to apprehensions that the Bill may go up in smoke.
The application of magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI) technology in medical science has been the biggest step forward in the field of radiology since the use of X-ray. According to a paper presented by Dr. Praveen Gulati at the National Conference on Radiology here today, of all the available facilities, the MRI …
Gynaecologists in Jabalpur, have used a non-surgical method to clear blocked fallopian tubes of infertile women thereby helping them to have babies in the normal way instead of having to go through the expensive and uncertain process of invitro fertilisation(IVF).The procedure has been successfully used on 10 infertile women, four …
