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 …
More than 50 countries have banned it. The World Health Organisation says its causes cancer. Even a country that exports it to India prefers not to use it domestically. But India refuses to even label asbestos as a hazardous material and is again ready to internationally commit to import it …
The health department has blamed the World Health Organisation (WHO) for rise in polio cases in the NWFP, sources claimed. A complaint in this regard was made by the executive district officer (EDO), health Peshawar, in response to an explanation sought by the provincial secretary health, regarding rise in the …
Inadequate access to safe water and sanitation leads millions of our people to various health problems. Water and vector born diseases like diarrhoea, dysentery, typhoid, worm infestation and polio, malaria, hepatitis A and E are too common in the country. These diseases are specially very dangerous for the children under …
A newer vaccine that targets the most common form of the polio virus works up to four times better than the conventional vaccine that tries to protect against all three types of the crippling disease, researchers said on Wednesday. The so-called monovalent vaccine may help speed the fight to eradicate …
Nearly 60 million women will give birth without any medical assistance this year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday in a report calling for an overhaul of how health care is financed and managed globally. The United Nations agency said in its annual World Health Report that the …
nuclear energy Private players? Private players may soon be allowed entry into nuclear energy production. Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said as much minutes before he went in to deliberate on the draft Integrated Energy Policy with the plan panel. The law will, however, have to be amended …
The Green Revolution technologies in the country have resulted many fold increase in crop production, but simultaneously have made heavy demands of agro-chemicals, mostly fertilisers and pesticides. These have created pollution of soil, water, air and agricultural produce. Agricultural pollutants include pesticides, herbicides, fertilisers and some other agro- chemicals. In …
China's Premier, Wen Jiabao, is without a doubt the most popular figure in China's top leadership: a graying, grandfatherly standout in a crowd of wooden faces that rarely crack a smile, much less choke up on national television as Wen did after the May earthquake in Sichuan province. But this …
Joe C Mathew / New Delhi October 3, 2008, 0:56 IST The World Health Organization (WHO) has given five more months to the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) to upgrade its performance to international standards. The extension of the current deadline of October-end came after a visiting WHO team …
A new type of ready-to-use food is changing the way severe malnutrition is treated. But questions remain about how far to push its introduction--and science has a hard time providing the answer.
The health impacts of air pollution depend on the pollutant type, its concentration in the air, length of exposure, other pollutants in the air, and individual susceptibility. The undernourished, very young and very old, and people with preexisting respiratory disease and other ill health, may be more affected by the …
Who will benefit from globally promoted pneumonia vaccine? the pneumonia vaccine that the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, a public-private coalition, and who are promoting in developing countries is expensive, inefficient and causes serious side-effects, contends a letter published in a public health journal. In a letter to the …
Last year, Anusha, 30, took a new weight-loss drug for seven months to combat her obesity. Although it helped her shed between 5 kg and 8 kg, she claims, there were side effects.
Priyanka Chandola According to a recent study, health effects of air pollutants are worse in Asian cities. Economic boom in Asia has come with a price. Health effects of particulate pollutants in Asian cities are similar - even greater - than those in most industrialised western cities. Effects of gaseous …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: With 75 per cent of the population or 2 billion people in the Asia-Pacific region at risk, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked the member states to take concrete measures urgently in order to control the spread of dengue. The severity of the public health …
By Dr Gopal Dabade The WHO should be an honest broker between the needs of the public and vaccine manufacturers. The term vaccine was coined by Edward Jenner, during 1796, when he observed that the milk-maid did not acquire small-pox as she was having protection and further he realised that …
