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 …
French afternoon daily Le Monde said several unpublished scientific studies in Britain had found in sheep tiny proteins identical to those believed to cause so-called mad cow disease in cattle.
The Madhya Pradesh government has decided to set up a state AIDS control soceity in order to ensure effective implementation of AIDS control activities and widen its scope in rural areas.
The Maharaja is becoming health-conscious. In keeping with international trend, Air-India (AI) is planning to ban smoking on select flights. The financial impact of introducing 'no smoking' flights is being worked out, according to sources.
The average number of children a Japanese women bears during her life expectancy dropped to a record low 1.39 in 1997, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
Zimbabwe is under pressure from donor countries and agencies to reform its collapsing healthcare system. Planned reforms include decentralising the system and introducing some market mechanisms. But with 41 percent of Zimbabweans living in absolute poverty and health spending reduced under Structural Adjustment Programmes, the task is tricky.
Better than nothing : Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the go-ahead to test a less-than-perfect AIDS vaccine-the first approved for wide-scale human trials. The new vaccine, AIDVAX, developed by VaxGen, contains snippets of two strains of HIV yet has proved safe.
The National Health Service of UK should remain a tax funded system largely free at the point of use, a study published by the centre-left Institute for Public Policy Research has concluded. The report, argues that the NHS, a universal health service provided by the government, is not only a …
The M P State Government has decided to constitute State AIDS Control Society with an objective to empower AIDS control programme and expand its effective limits in the rural regions. A decision to this effect was reached upon in a high-level meeting presided over by Chief Secretary KS Sharma.
the most devastating wildfires in seven decades are raging across Mexico and Central America, gobbling millions of acres of forests and grasslands, closing international airports and pushing blankets of smoke into Texas and gritty haze as far away as Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Georgia. Smoke from the fires has forcedofficials in …
Britain's programme of research into Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) left vital gaps, a member of the government's Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee told the official BSE inquiry recently. Jeffery Almond from University of Reading, UK, believes that the agriculture ministry should have commissioned more research into the threat posed to human …
the American linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky once asserted that human beings, apart from being the only species able to communicate through a spoken language, are further endowed at birth with an innate linguistic ability. What Chomsky meant is that the human brain is essentially precon-ditioned to construct the …
nearly 50 per cent of Calcutta's population may risk developing cardio-vascular diseases due to high carbonate content in drinking water, says a study. A B Dasgupta, member of the West Bengal planning board, says that residents of Salt Lake, north and south Calcutta, have been drinking brackish water containing such …
Water crisis has severely disrupted lives of thousands in Kathmandu. The city requries 160 million litres of water a day but the supply is only 120-130 million litres.
Birth live on the Internet: A 40-year-old Florida woman is scheduled to give birth live on the Internet on Tuesday, the first ever online delivery, a cable television health network said on Friday."We want this to be an educational event," said Dr Walt Latimore, host of Ask the Family Doctor …
The total number of recorded cases of people infected with the AIDS-causing virus in the Philippines has risen to 1,071, a local newspaper quoted the health department as saying in Manila on Saturday.This includes 335 people who actually developed full-blown AIDS and 176 people who died of the incurable disease …
WHO: As many as 1 million between the ages of 15 and 44 will die of tuberculosis (TB) and 2.5million will get sick from the disease this year, making TB the single leading cause of deaths, among women of reproductive age, says the World Health Organisation (WHO).
