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 …
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has told his government to stop using the controversial herbicide glyphosate — also known by its brand name Roundup. “I am going to ask the government officials in the National Drug Council at their next meeting to suspend glyphosate spraying of illicit cultivations (of coca),” …
The Environmental Protection Agency has wrapped up its review of the world's most widely used herbicide and plans to release a much-anticipated preliminary risk assessment no later than July, the regulator's chief pesticide regulator told Reuters. The EPA review of the health and environmental impacts of glyphosate comes at a …
Prices of branded drugs available in India should be brought down closer to the prices of their generic alternatives, requests a letter from the Indian Medical Association (IMA) addressed to the union health ministry. The letter, sent in the second week of April, also requests the ministry to assess the …
Three-quarters of countries do not have plans in place to preserve antimicrobial medicines, the World Health Organization says. The body has repeatedly warned that the globe is heading into a "post-antibiotic era" in which much of modern medicine becomes impossible. Its report showed "a lot more needs to be done" …
As existing data resurfaced in recent days potentially linking increased cancer incidence in the Haifa Bay to air pollution, Environmental Protection Ministry professionals said on Wednesday that they will recommend that their new minister declare the area “an air-pollution- stricken region.” “Despite the significant decrease in air pollution and the …
Chinese medical experts are suggesting mortality rates for cancer are set to keep rising over the next 20 years. A new survey by the National Central Cancer Registry shows about 3.3 million people were diagnosed with cancer in 2011. Two-thirds of those diagnosed with the disease die from it in …
Prices of drugs for various ailments like diabetes, hepatitis & cancer to go up by 3.84% The government has allowed pharmaceutical companies to hike rates of 509 essential medicines used for treating various ailments like diabetes, hepatitis and cancer by 3.84% with effect from April 1. The National Pharmaceutical Pricing …
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 …
