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 people of Azara, Rani, Dharapur, Khanamukh, Majirgaon, Garal, Palasbari ect. in south Kamrup have been suffering from epidemics like viral fever and diarrhoea since a month back.
The WHO is working on an international framework convention on tobacco control, with a view to effectively tackle the health problems posed by the use of tobacco in various forms. The proposed Convention would be a legal instrument in the form of an international treaty to which the signatory States …
Thailand has developed a new technique for producing plannotol, the active ingredient in a popylar peptic-ulcer drug derived from a plant that is indigenous to Southeast Asia. The Thailand Research Fund, which financed the research of Dr Wanchai de-Eknamkul into a new extraction method from the Plao Noi plant, has …
Children exposed to environmental tobacco smoke have a signficantly greater risk of dying of sudden infant death syndrome. This could either be due to the their mother's smoking during pregnancy, or the extended exposure to ETS . According to World Health Organisation estimates, children under 11, whose parents smoke at …
Worried over the growing incidence of cancer and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the World Health Assembly, the highest governing body of WHO, has called upon the WHO and its member-countries to develop a strategy that could effectively tackle the problem. The call for the development of a strategy came in …
Smoking will become even more of tobacco behaviour under a campaign by the Singapore governemnt to use family and social pressure to get smokers to kick the habit.
Tobacco prematurely kills an estimated three million people every year globally. This figure is likely to rise to 8.4 million per annum by 2025 in developing countries. Mortality rate from all respiratory diseases is 4.7 times higher among people smoking more than 25 cigarettes a day than among non-smokers. This …
Scientists are racing to develop better, faster versions of the impotence drug that provide pleasure without the pain of side effects. Viagra's market is vast and its growth has been fast and steady. More than 1 million men have filled prescriptions for Viagra, made by Pfizer Inc., since it was …
A 12-day-old Hong Kong baby has entered the annals of medical history by becoming the world's youngest patient to undergo a keyhole surgery in his large intestine.The boy was suffering from total colonic aganglionosis, an illnes that can cause fatal bowel obstruction for lack of nerve cells in the large …
a confidential database of people being treated for hiv and their medical regimes will be set up in Australia later this year, to address concerns that thousands of hiv patients are not on medication. One of the first in the world, the database will record the number of patients who …
infections are a pretty simple affair to most of us. It is usually something we "catch' inadvertently, and then pop in some pills and forget the whole episode. The cycle lasts for about a week. However, despite exceptions such as leprosy (which brings prolonged misery), or perhaps, tuberculosis
a simple filter based on sand and iron filings could effectively prevent millions of people being poisoned by arsenic in the water they drink. Nikalaos Nikolaidis, professor of environmental engineering as the University of Connecticut, usa , has created a filter that converts almost all the water-borne arsenic into insoluble …
With the contribution of US $1.00 million from UNFPA, the Bhutan Health Trust Fund now has US $ 3.44 million. The Health Trust Fund has a target of US $ 24 million, to become operational when it touches US $ 5.00 million.
The United Nation's Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Bhutan government signed three project documents, worth US$ 4.01 million on population and reprodutive health.
Bioprospecting-the age old search for medicines from nature-is taking on a new vitality as the tools of modern biotechnology are brought to bear : a report.
Fanned by a decade of ethnic war and upheaval, a fast growing AIDS epidemic has broken out of this country's cities and is sweeping through the rural areas, health officials and aid workers say. Even if it is arrested now, the epidemic will take the life of one person out …
Doctors at All India Institute of Medical Sciences here have implanted an improved electronic device on a completely deaf patient, helping him hear again. This is third patient to be implanted with the imported Australian device at AIIMS.
In an interim order, the Delhi High Court today asked the Indraprastha Apollo hospital to open its out patient department with effect from June 10 for the needy and deserving patients.
Paracetamol was a safer option for fever management, than non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) which had become popular first-line treatment, former head of paediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Dr. Meharban Singh, has said.
The promise of a $200 million World Bank package to fight the galloping spread of HIV/AIDS in India has prompted Non-Government Organisations to scramble for a piece of the action. "We expect to get $200 million for a five-year period starting next year," said Mr Prasada Rao, project director at …
