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 …
A probe by The Hindu and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism finds a veterinary drug producer promoting their misuse in poultry farming The world’s biggest animal drugs company has been accused of double standards and of exposing consumers in India to “higher levels of risk” by selling antibiotics for purposes …
The government has set up a high-level task force to determine how Wild Polio Virus 2 (WPV2) traces surfaced in the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) batches made by Ghaziabad-based Biomed, which is facing criminal prosecution for the lapse. Since September 2015 when the Global Commission for the Certification of Poliomyelitis …
At least three batches of polio vaccines containing 1.5 lakh vials have been found contaminated with type 2 polio virus, putting at risk India’s “polio free” status as children born after April 2016 — when the type 2 virus was withdrawn worldwide including in India — do not have immunity …
Attacks by armed opposition groups in North Kivu province hit by the outbreak have risen in recent weeks, including a deadly raid in the town of Beni that forced the World Health Organization to suspend its work, the agency's emergency response chief, Peter Salama, told reporters. The struggle to contain …
Transportation accounts for about 11 per cent of India's carbon emissions and is a major source of air pollution in several cities nationwide. About 87 per cent of Indian drivers and vehicle owners would buy an electric vehicle (EV), if that helped reduce air pollution, according to a new survey. …
A China-based technology company has developed a novel laser-powered device that it says can accurately monitor indoor air quality in real time, and is specially engineered for conditions in India, which is grappling with a high burden of air pollution. The monitor called Sensedge empowers commercial building owners and households …
Meet highlights need to formulate local plan for country India should involve its experts and develop guidelines for the treatment of hypertension, according to Daniel Lackland, president of World Hypertension League. “The country should use experts and develop plans to lower blood pressure (BP) levels. The resources are available. What …
MUMBAI: Global experts have identified a new killer: poor quality healthcare. Around five million people die every year — almost a third of them in India (1.6 million) — due to inadequate healthcare, said a new analysis published in The Lancet. There is an “epidemic of poor quality care”, said …
Indians would live a year longer if India were to achieve its national air quality standards, the report said Provide the public with regular information about polluters and fine industries for emissions that exceed legal limits. These are two of five “evidence-based” recommendations to tackle air pollution across India, according …
Treatment will be provided at 25 centres — 22 dist hospitals and three govt medical colleges In a major move, the Punjab Government has slashed the hepatitis-C testing rates by a whopping 50 per cent. The move came after the state government joined hands with India’s leading testing lab - …
Bulawayo — At least eight people have died and over 40 others admitted to hospital following a recurring outbreak of typhoid in central Zimbabwe. The tragedy is out of 1 460 suspected cases confirmed in the Midlands provincial town of Gweru. Over 60 percent of the cases since last week …
In response to the need to have a holistic information system that can continuously collect, analyse and interpret data related to nutrition, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is supporting the Ministry of Health in Seychelles to develop the country's Nutrition Information System (NIS). Dr Hana Bekele, Nutrition Advisor from the …
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that it could not be certain that it had identified all people exposed to the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu region, where insecurity prevents aid workers from reaching some areas. More than 500 …
Report says denizens would live about four years longer. Mumbai: Citizens in Maharashtra can live up to four years more if the air quality improves as per the World Health Organisation (WHO) norms, stated a report by researchers of the University of Chicago and Harvard Kennedy School. The report titled …
A herbicide that is believed to cause cancer is widely in use in South Africa. And, according to organic farmer Angus McIntosh, it can be found "in every loaf of bread sold in every shop in this country" and "in all processed foods, tinned foods and ready-made meals… consumed by …
Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad said on Monday that the procedures for countering air pollution will not be limited in certain times, but will last over the whole year in cooperation with other ministries and institutions. In a press conference for announcing the ministry’s plan for countering the black clouds …
The World Health Organization says experts are starting to carry out Ebola vaccinations in Congo's latest deadly outbreak. Health officials have warned that containing the outbreak is complicated by the presence of multiple armed groups in the northeast region that borders Uganda and Rwanda. Congo's health ministry says at least …
The capital witnessed 981 deaths due to Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) from 2013 to 2017. Over 17 lakh others were diagnosed with ARI, stated a standing committee report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday. The report said the polluted air in Delhi-NCR is a significant risk factor for a number of …
Health workers in Congo were setting up refrigerators on Monday to keep cool an Ebola vaccine needed to tackle an outbreak suspected to have infected 43 people, the health ministry said. Giving the latest figures on the epidemic, which was declared just days after an outbreak in northwestern Congo 2,500 …
From September 1, only Karnataka Antibiotics & Pharmaceuticals, a public sector entity, would be permitted to manufacture and distribute Oxytocin. A health ministry advisory body has suggested that the Central government should not ban the sale of Oxytocin through retail chemists — which is proposed to come into force from …
