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 …
GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals (GSK) recently cut a deal with the Brazilian government, which allows it to supply a 10-valent vaccine against childhood pneumonia and other life-threatening infections for a decade at a fixed price in a reflection of the growing importance of vaccines and emerging markets to Big Pharma. The contract, …
AREPORT by a UNICEF team providing new estimates of child mortality stressed the need to refocus on pneumonia and diarrhoea as two of the three most important causes of underfive mortality but failed to recognise promotion of exclusive breastfeeding or nutrition as part of the solutions, says an expert. Instead …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) reiterated its confidence in the H1N1 vaccine on Tuesday, calling it the most important tool against the pandemic. Mild adverse side effects such as muscle cramps or headache are to be expected in some cases, but everyone who has access to the vaccine should be …
The World Health Organi-sation restated its confidence in the H1N1 flu vaccine on Tuesday, calling it the most important tool against the pandemic. Mild adverse side effects such as muscle cramps or headache are to be expected in some cases, but everyone who has access to the vaccine should be …
Parameters for assessment of status of malnutrition are going to be metamorphosed and according to new set of transformed parameters assessment of malnutrition will be done following World Health Organisation parameters. This new arrangement is being tested at Shivpuri, Guna and Ashok Nagar districts. Later this method of assessment will …
The developing world will suffer about 80 per cent of the damage from climate change despite accounting for only around a third of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the World Bank said on Sunday.
Worldwide an estimated 7.9 million or more babies are born each year with a birth defect. The causes of birth defects remain largely a mystery, although a few culprits, including some environmental agents, have been identified as contributing factors. Reliable numbers for both types of defects and cases remain unclear, …
An attempt has been made to estimate the presence of heavy metal Arsenic in groundwater in the state of Tamil Nadu recently. Now-a-days the heavy metal Arsenic poses a health risk problem throughout the world. Arsenic may be found in water which has flowed through arsenic-rich rocks. Severe health effects …
VIEW FINDER NOT A USUAL EXERCISE Soldiers smell the ground to detect bodies of flash flood victims in Taiwan after Typhoon Morakot battered the island"s southern region in the second week of August. The typhoon, which Met officials call the deadliest in 50 years, also triggered mudslides; one such mudslide …
It is not going to be easy for India to meet its commitment to the World Health Organisation (WHO) to bring down tobacco production by 50 per cent in the next one decade. Tobacco output in India is estimated to be more than 700 million kg in 2009-10 due to …
A 2009 WHO report has ranked India first in the total number of TB cases and also in cases that have developed multi-drug resistance (MDR) to the disease. The latest report puts the number of cases in India at a staggering two million and the total number of drug resistant …
The Director-General of the World Heath Organisation (WHO), Margaret Chan, said here on Monday that the production of influenza A(H1N1) vaccine was on track and it would be ideal to produce three billion of them annually. Speaking after the opening ceremony of the Regional Committee Meeting of the Western Pacific …
The head of the World Health Organisation said on Sunday that the swine flu virus has apparently not yet mutated into a more serious disease and that the development of vaccines was proceeding on track. The vaccines for (A) H1N1 influenza produced so far have been very effective, WHO Director-General …
Srikakulam, Sept. 21: A team from the World Health Organisation assisted by local doctors, visited the Uddanam area in the district where several people have died due to mysterious kidney diseases. The visit was initiated by the local Lok Sabha member, Dr Killi Kriparani, a medical practitioner herself. She began …
Millions of impoverished Bangladeshis are barely sustaining a hand-to-mouth existence that would be wrenched from their grasp by any fresh "economic shock," according to the UN food aid agency. World Food Programme (WFP) country head John Aylieff said two million children aged under five in Bangladesh are suffering from acute …
One needs to look no further then the river that runs through Shangba to understand the extent of the heavy metals pollution that experts say has turned the hamlets in this region of southern China into cancer villages. The river's flow ranges from murky white to a bright shade of …
Experts from 18 countries have arrived in India to participate in the first meeting of the working group of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which gets underway in Delhi on Wednesday. The two-day meeting is part of international consultations aimed at developing a standardised methodological framework for …
The government would launch a pilot project in polio-affected areas of the country in order to create a database of every inoculated or vaccinated child. The database will have contact details of each child to verify if he or she has actually been immunised or not. The health authorities would …
