Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
India accounted for 6% of global malaria burden in 2016; highest number of cases reported in Odisha Universal access to malaria diagnosis and treatment and follow-up of patients with enhanced surveillance can dramatically reduce the number of malaria cases. ‘Live project’ This is according to a ‘live project’ — ‘Comprehensive …
The Government of India has cited studies undertaken at the National Institute of Virology, Pune, in its official communication to the CDC India asked the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to “withdraw or modify” an alert the latter issued cautioning pregnant women against travelling to India lest …
AHMEDABAD: The minute you step outside your house, vehicular fumes hit you. As you go further, under-construction roads or building add to the particulate matter you breathe in. These suspended particles come from waste burning and industrial activities. As the world marks Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Day on Wednesday, …
MUMBAI: Antibiotics are so overprescribed that a Kochi hospital managed to cut down the use of restricted antibiotics — considered the last-resort medicines for seriously ailing patients — by as much as 86% over the past two years with no adverse effect on the number of deaths. Doctors at Hinduja …
JAIPUR: Pregnant women in their first trimester, who were tested positive for Zika in Jaipur, can now breathe a huge sigh of relief. It has been confirmed by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) that Zika virus strain that causes microcephaly is not found in the state. However, health officials …
A total of 11.57 lakh cancer cases was reported in India this year, a 15.7 per cent increase over the 10 lakh cases reported in 2012, Ravi Mehrotra, director of Indian Council of Medical Research’s National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research (ICMR-NICPR) said while releasing the India-specific data from …
AHMEDABAD: Even as the Gujarat government continues to maintain a studied silence on the status of Zika virus infection in Amraiwadi area, the state health department’s own surveillance notes suggest that some “10 pregnant women with symptoms consistent with Zika virus disease or fever” were zeroed in within “0 to …
Mumbai: Air pollution is emerging as the third major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in India. It is perhaps lagging behind only the two traditional reasons believed to cause heart ailments so far – poor dietary habits and blood pressure. These are the findings of a reputed international medical …
Guwahati: New HIV infections have been reported in Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram in 2017, in spite of an overall decline in HIV infection in the country, according to a National AIDS Control Organisation (Naco) report. The three states have reported increasing new HIV infections, according to the recently …
Disability adjusted life years or DALYs are years of healthy life lost to premature death and suffering. New Delhi: Air pollution was the leading risk factor for chronic obstructive lung disease in India in 2016 followed by smoking, said a comprehensive analysis of several major non-communicable diseases released on Wednesday. …
About 33.6% of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) (DALYs) could be attributed to ambient air pollution, 25.8% to household air pollution and 21% to smoking. India has 18% of the world’s population but 32% of the global burden of respiratory diseases. Respiratory disease burden in India is second only to …
Here’s a piece of information you may find hard to believe. A study undertaken by top medical experts from over 100 Indian institutions has revealed that age-adjusted incidence of most common cancers, except breast cancer, has remained static in India over the last 26 years from 1990 to 2016. While …
Task force set up on Monday to develop early warning system for air pollution in Delhi-NCR Referring to the pollution levels in the Capital, Union Minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday said that the number of “good days” had gone up in Delhi and the “bad days” declined. ‘Good days’ Replying …
Linda-Gail Bekker, president of the International AIDS Society and lead author of the Commission’s report, told The Indian Express, that current approaches to HIV control were not adequate to contain it by 2030. A new report by the International AIDS Society and Lancet Commission, released online on Thursday, says the …
As many as 126 cases of dengue have been reported from Bilaspur while 52 in Parwanoo in Solan, Joint Director, Directorate of Health Services, Dr. Ashok Kumar Gupta said. A National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) team has been camping in Himachal Pradesh since Sunday after over 150 dengue cases …
NEW DELHI/ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Clearing the air on the origin of Nipah outbreak in Kerala, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has confirmed that fruit bats were the primary source of the virus that claimed 17 lives in Kozhikode and Malappuram districts of the state earlier this year. The delay in …
KOZHIKODE: Health minister K K Shailaja declared Kozhikode and Malappuram districts Nipah-free at a function organized by state health department at New Nalanda auditorium here on Sunday. Health staff and others who had rendered selfless services in fighting the Nipah outbreak was also felicitated at the event, organized to mark …
Chikungunya spreads round the year and is as prevalent as dengue, NIV finds after redefining symptoms Chikungunya is as widely prevalent in India as dengue but tends to get overlooked or missed due to greater focus on dengue, a new study by the ICMR-National Institute of Viorology has found. Cases …
NEW DELHI: In the wake of Nipah virus cases in Kerala, the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has written to the Queensland government in Australia asking it to provide an antibody developed there to test if it can "neutralise" the virus in humans. The antibody has not been tested …
After having a failed attempt at conducting a countrywide oral survey, the Dental Council of India (DCI) under the aegis of the Union Health Ministry is all set to process a fresh research on India’s dental policy. The survey, National Survey on Availability of Dental Health Manpower and Disease Prevalence …
