The number of deaths among children under the age of five has reduced by half since 1990. Yet over 5 million children are still dying every year from mostly preventable causes. Pneumonia is responsible for nearly 20% of these deaths and is the leading infectious cause of death in this …
Measles, while not always fatal, is a potentially serious and highly communicable respiratory disease caused by a virus and spreads in the air.(Reuters) The measles virus can cause serious disease in children by temporarily suppressing their immune systems for as long as three years and not just a few months, …
Cases of pneumonia among children in Kilifi have reduced sharply after the introduction of a vaccine in 2011, latest results show. The pneumococcal vaccine was introduced in Kenya in 2011 mostly to prevent pneumonia and meningitis. Ministry of Health and KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme have been monitoring reported cases at …
E-cigarettes have for the first time been found to be harmful to the lungs in the same way as traditional nicotine cigarettes. Scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health confirmed that e-cigarette vapours contain the same potentially dangerous chemicals. Research has also found that e-cigarette vapours contain free …
A leading microbiologist has warned of the increasing threat that killer fungi poses to humans and the environment. New figures show that fungal diseases cause hundreds of thousands of deaths annually, following severe respiratory illness and infections of the blood stream. And now an expert has warned that fungi kill …
The Centre will soon launch an action plan against diarrhoea and pneumonia in four States, including Rajasthan. The aim is to end preventable child deaths from these two by 2025. As high as 36 per cent of all child deaths, below the age of 5, in India are caused by …
The Lancet presents the most recent update on the global, regional, and national causes of death. Against a backdrop of increased global improvements in life-expectancy, death rates for some causes – including drug use and liver cancer – continue to rise. Up-to-date evidence on levels and trends for age-sex-specific all-cause …
Nearly 300 children have died this year in desert communities in southern Pakistan, officials said yesterday, as poor monsoon rains and livestock diseases have combined to worsen malnutrition. The Thar desert, straddling the Indian border and one of Pakistan's poorest areas, has seen an alarming number of children suffering pneumonia …
WaterAid India (WAI) welcomes the high level political commitments of the Prime Minister on 15 August 2014 of setting 2019 as a goal to achieve universal access to sanitation. In an effort to support this renewed emphasis on ending sanitation crisis in India and also as a committed sector actor, …
Ado Ekiti — About 231,000 Nigerian children under the age of five die annually of pneumonia and diarrhoea, the Justice, Development and Peace Initiative (JDPI) has said. Programme Officer, Water and Sanitation Department of the organisation, Mr. Bamikole Adegbite, stated this yesterday at St. Joseph Catholic Nursery Primary School, Ajilosun, …
KATHMANDU, Oct 8: Children across the country will be immunized with three new vaccines within the current fiscal year, thanks to the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) that has included additional shots in the regular immunization list. Child Health Division (CHD) under the Department of Health Services (DoHS) stated …
The objective of the study was to estimate the impact on maternal and child mortality after eliminating user fees for pregnant women and for children less than five years of age in Burkina Faso.
GURGAON: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has allocated $450,000 for health projects in Haryana. Speaking at a three-day workshop in city on 'Implementation Research proposal development', Rakesh Gupta, mission director, National Health Mission, Haryana, said that some of the projects address the burning issues in state like implementation of community …
With an aim to reduce under five mortality rate, the Union health ministry is all set to introduce Pentavalent vaccine in the National Immunisation programme in 11 high burden states. The move will reduce the injection load as a single shot of the vaccine has antigens of five diseases — …
Seventy chicken samples from Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR), tested by the Centre for Science and Environment, were found to be carrying traces of five antibiotics. Largescale misuse and overuse of antibiotics in chicken has lead to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in chicken itself. The CSE report …
Each time you eat chicken, you could also be consuming a cocktail of antibiotics. A lab study released by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) found antibiotic residues in 40% of chicken samples bought from outlets in Delhi and NCR. While the amount of antibiotics found in each sample was …
Claiming that it found several antibiotic residues in chickens tested in Delhi-NCR region, an environment body on Wednesday said "large-scale and indiscriminate" use of antibiotics in poultry industry might be "strongly linked" to growing antibiotic resistance in Indians. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) also sought implementation of a …
Large scale, indiscriminate use of antibiotics in the poultry industry has led to antibiotic resistance in Indians who are falling prey to many otherwise curable ailments, said a new study released here Wednesday. The study by the Centre for Science and Environment's (CSE) Pollution Monitoring Lab, which tested 70 chicken …
HYDERABAD: It’s official! At least 40 per cent of policemen including law and order, traffic and other wings in Cyberabad and Hyderabad Police Commissionerates are suffering from severe health hazards, according to a study conducted recently. The policemen are suffering from BP, diabetes and other lung-related problems like pneumonia and …
Tulasipur (Dang), July 13: Number of patients suffering from different diseases has increased in the district for the few days. According to the government hospitals in the district—Rapti Sub-Regional Hospital, Ghorahi, and Rapti Zonal Hospital, Tulasipur—number of patients suffering from different diseases including fever, typhoid, pneumonia, vomiting, and cold and …
UN urges final push on global targets that have shown little improvement, notably those related to women and children. Achieving global targets to reduce maternal and child deaths and increase access to improved sanitation facilities by 2015 is "slipping away", despite significant progress in the past 14 years, the UN …
