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 …
Environment and health are two most important issues in modern society. It is equally important to recognize the powerful role of the media in shaping our knowledge and views about the two issues. In the past decades, a large number of crucial agendas have been built through and promoted in …
Agricultural Engineering is becoming increasingly important to make Indian agriculture a sustainable, profitable and competitive enterprise through engineering interventions of farm mechanization, value addition and energy management in production and post-harvest operations. The conference will cover emerging research and new engineering solutions for food production and related activities, as a …
International Conference on Climate Change Innovation and Resilience for Sustainable Livelihood is being held in Kathmandu, Nepal from 12-14 January 2015. The conference is a joint effort of The Small Earth Nepal, City University of New York, Colorado State University, Department of Hydrology and Meteorology/Government of Nepal, Department of Livestock …
Intrinsic antibiotic resistance has been a fact of bacterium life since long before humans discovered the use of antibiotic drugs. However, the introduction of pharmaceutical antibiotics in the 1940s and explosion in use ever since dramatically accelerated the spread of antibiotic-resistance genes. Today, the problem of antibiotic resistance is so …
India is, today, the fourth largest producer of drugs in the world and a world class supplier of relatively cheap generic medicines. It is the largest supplier in the world of low-priced anti-retrovirals and exports medicines to over 200 countries. However, major concerns regarding access to medi cines in the …
The City University of New York, Colorado State University, The Small Earth Nepal, and Department of Hydrology and Meteorology and Department of Livestock Services/Government of Nepal are holding the International Conference on Climate Change Innovation and Resilience for Sustainable Livelihood during 12-14 January 2015 in Kathmandu, Nepal. The three-day event …
Welcome to the official website of the 2014 International Conference on Food Sciences and Health (ICFSH 2014) will be held during November 29-30, 2014 in Mauritius. ICFSH 2014, is to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of Food Sciences and Health to a common forum. The …
Increased mineral demand has put extreme pressure on the mining industry, coupled with sustainability, health and safety issues. The need for technological advancement has never been more compelling.The main focus of the 5th Global Mining Technology Forum is to bring to the forefront, cutting egde technologies that are spearheading innovation …
Since 2008 the World Health Organization has shown leadership in raising awareness of the threats posed by climate change to health. Specifically, WHO has provided evidence, technical guidance and piloted approaches to protect health from climate risks.
The World Health Organization (WHO) will host the first global conference on climate change and health from 27 to 29 August 2014 at its headquarters in Geneva. The three day conference will bring together leading experts. The purpose is to develop a shared vision of how the health sector can …
The world is becoming increasingly urbanised with majority of the population residing and working in cities. While increasing urbanisation and economic growth can provide significant benefits, they also present a range of challenges with regard to the escalating resource use and today we witness one of our most important natural …
International Conference on Chemical, Food and Environment Engineering (ICCFEE'15) scheduled on Jan. 11-12, 2015 at Dubai (UAE) aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Chemical, Food and Environment Engineering, and discuss the practical challenges …
The Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), an inclusive inter-governmental meeting on nutrition jointly organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), will be held at FAO Headquarters, in Rome, 19-21 November 2014. Notwithstanding progress in many countries, unacceptably high levels of malnutrition persist. …
The Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act (DPCPTRA), informally known as the ‘Hatch-Waxman Act’, introduced in 1984, modified the Patent Act of 1952 and Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act Section 21 U.S.C. 355(j) to simplify approval process of generic drugs by FDA by filing Abbreviated New Drug …
Rates of obesity and other childhood chronic conditions have increased over recent decades. Patterns of how conditions change over time have not been widely examined. This study aims to evaluate change in prevalence of obesity and other chronic conditions in US children, including incidence, remission, and prevalence.
Bacteria regularly evolve antibiotic resistance, but little is known about this process at the population level. Here, a continuous culture of Escherichia coli facing increasing antibiotic levels is followed. Most isolates taken from this population are less antibiotic resistant than the population as a whole. A few highly resistant mutants …
Bacteria are amongst the most adaptable organisms on Earth. Long evolutionary timescales, extremely short generation times, exposure to the most diverse and often hostile environments, together with the remarkable power of natural selection have made microorganisms the most resilient of life forms on this planet. In the last few days …
With a large number of Indian cities embarking on natural gas vehicle programme it is essential that the elements of these programmes are well defined for maximum environmental and public health gains. It is important that the lessons are drawn from the well established programmes in the region to chart …
Cycling to work may seem the healthy option, but a study has shown that people riding in cities inhale tens of millions of toxic nanoparticles with every breath, at least five times more than drivers or pedestrians. The research showed that urban concentrations of nanoparticles, which measure just a few …
The poverty ratio or the number of poor as a percentage of total population in India for 2004-05 is estimated at 37.2 per cent, according to this report submitted by the Suresh Tendulkar committee recently. The committee has defined the poor based on a normative living standard — it has …
