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 …
Dr N. K. Mehra, professor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences has been elected president of the Australian and South Asian Tissue Typing Association during its recent conference held in Sydney, Australia.
Lorillard Tobacco Co has paid more than $1.5 million to the family of a California smoker who died of cancer, the first time a US cigarette maker has ever paid a smoking related personal injury claim.
Study : The study is based on American Cancer Society data on 324,135 men and women who were enrolled in 1960 and then followed up in 1972. It was published in Thursday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, along with an editorial urging doctors not to push people …
Study : One of the biggest studies ever to look at the effects of weight on longevity concludes that thinner is definitely better at almost all ages. It found that being too heavy seems to shorten life expectancy up to about age 75. After that big doesnt seem to make …
Automakers are pursuing several routes toward meeting California's stringent emissions rules and addressing global pollution concerns. Following are brief sketches of some of the main types : Honda Motor Co. Ltd has developed the first virtually polluton free internal combustion engine. Several automakers have developed cars using hybrid electric and …
Vehicle makers are pressing California's clean air regulators to revise rules on sales quotas for zero emission vehicles following disappointing sales of electric cars.
Although the world popuation growth has slowed down, over 30 per cent of all births still occur in India, according to the Washington based Population Institute.
A Private nursing home in a posh locality of the State capital has closed down following the publication of a news item in "The Pioneer " that it had become the centre for a well-organised kidney transplant racket, mostly involving foreign nationals.
More than 500 mutton shops in Madurai city ramained closed on Thursday following the death of several heads of cattle due to the 'blue tongue' virus attack. The non-vegetarians avoided purchase of meat as per the doctors'advice.
Indian pharmaceutical companies should concentrate on process research and pursue innovation in drugs that are off patent whose market is expected to be $20 billions by 2000 , a World Bank funded study has recommended.
Leading Indian virologists say that people returning from Hong Kong should be screened to detect carriers of the new influenza virus which has created panic worldwide.
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) or sexually transmitted infections (STIs), have been recognised as a major public-health problem for a number of years. In 1912, Prince Morrow, chair of the US committee looking into the problem of venereal diseases, was quoted as saying "it is a conservative estimate that fully one-eighth …
Little has changed in the field of organ transplant even after the passage of the Human Organ Transplant Bill in 1994. The worst of the problems being a shortage of organs. The 10th annual conference of the Indian Society of Organ Transplantation to be held at the All India Institute …
Acting somewhat late in the day, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has asked the state health secretaries for detalis of steps take for ensuring adequate supply of blood , a day before the deadline for phasing out professional blood donation. The Supreme Court had banned all professional blood …
All of California except the great outdoors and private homes will effectively become one large on-smoking zone on New Year's Day. As the new year begins, the latest measure in the state's panoply of anti-tobacco laws comes into force: a ban on smoking in all bars and casinas. With the …
The city-based Wockhardt Hospital and Health Insititute has become the first -ever hospital in south and south-east Asia to set up a digital cardiac catheterisation laboratory for conduct of diagnositc and therapeutic cardiac catheterisation laboratory for conduct of diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac prodcedure like coronary angiography and balloon angioplastry.
An international team of scientists has found a gene, inherited by people with a rare intestinal disease which increases the risk of cancer. The Institute of Cancer Research has said scientists from various countries including Finland, New Zealand, Britain and the United States doing research on chromosome 19, a part …
When the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, anyone in a pub taking a drag off a cigarette will be breaking the law in California - the first state to ban smoking in bars.
The El Nino weather phenomenon could be causing an unseasonal outbreak of the mosquito-borne dengue fever in Thailand. Cases of dengue fever, which are usually restricted to the rainy season,have been reported in the dry season which began in October, according to the public health ministry.
The Hong Kong government has drawn up contingency plans if the deadly bird flu, which has so far claimed four lives, becomes an epidemic. Paul So, the health department deputy director, told legislators an emergency plan was in place in case there were no vaccine avialable.
