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 …
NEW DELHI/ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Clearing the air on the origin of Nipah outbreak in Kerala, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has confirmed that fruit bats were the primary source of the virus that claimed 17 lives in Kozhikode and Malappuram districts of the state earlier this year. The delay in …
CUTTACK: Dengue has again reared its ugly head in Cuttack. At least two cases from Tulasipur and Jagatpur have been reported following which Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) has started widespread awareness campaign against the disease in the city. "The dengue patients are not residents of Cuttack but they have come …
PUNE: Heartening as it may be that two dengue-infected patients who suffered from severe complications are currently on the road to recovery, private hospitals in the city on Tuesday reported 30 cases of dengue to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). The number of dengue cases recorded in the last three …
At least six fresh cases of malaria have been reported during the past week in Delhi, taking the total number of people affected by the vector-borne disease this season to 46, according to a municipal report released on Monday. Only two fresh cases of dengue, another vector-borne disease, were reported …
We all love rains but like all good things, rain too has its downside. Monsoon often brings along illness, that's why it is infamously known as the flu season. So, before you fall into it and get sick, learn that prevention is truly better than cure. Another thing that's better? …
KOZHIKODE: Health minister K K Shailaja declared Kozhikode and Malappuram districts Nipah-free at a function organized by state health department at New Nalanda auditorium here on Sunday. Health staff and others who had rendered selfless services in fighting the Nipah outbreak was also felicitated at the event, organized to mark …
HYDERABAD: As per the latest ‘Health Status Indicators Report 2018’ released by the Centre, among the major diseases, swine flu cases saw a slight decline (from 2956 to 2165) between 2015-2017, chikungunya cases too declined from 2067 to 663 during the period in Telangana state. Dengue cases, however, saw a …
FSSAI in talks with industry to convert used-cooking oil into bio-diesel With the new regulations for monitoring “used cooking oils” coming into force from July 1, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on Monday said the implementation of these regulations will require focus on consumer education, enforcement …
Katsina — An outbreak of cholera and diarrhea has killed no fewer than 29 people across Katsina State. While 17 died of cholera, the rest 12 lost their lives to chronic diarrhea and vomiting. The Commissioner for Health, Mrs. Mariatu Bala Usman, who confirmed the development yesterday, noted: "We do …
WINDHOEK – A 45-year-old man from Rehoboth has died of Influenza A H1N1 on Friday, the Ministry of Health and Social Services has confirmed. The deceased is from the five laboratory-confirmed cases that the ministry reported last week, and yesterday the ministry said it could not comment on the status …
The onset of monsoon brings relief from scorching temperatures but it also triggers favourable conditions for breeding of mosquitoes. In observance of the anti-dengue month in July, the district malaria officer, Yogesh Saraswat, has issued instructions to conduct fogging on all roads and byroads, awareness campaigns to ensure that people …
PATIALA: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar, in collaboration with scholars at Ohio State University in the United States, have developed a technology of painless micro-needles, based on the concept of a mosquito bite. The study was jointly led by Bharat Bhushan and Navin Kumar of IIT …
The government had lifted the high alert in the districts and said the virus has been brought under control and its spread checked. Educational institutions, which were scheduled to open on June 1, were reopened on June 11. Kozhikode and Malappuram districts, where 17 people died of Nipah in May, …
Poor dietary habits may be putting a number of children at risk for kidney stones, a condition that commonly affects adults. City urologists said that they are observing a significant increase in cases where teens, as young as 10 to 15 years, are getting affected by the disease that occurs …
Sequence type 36 (ST36) Klebsiella pneumoniae is distributed worldwide. We found an ST36 K. pneumoniae clinical isolate that was carbapenem resistant, carried blaKPC-2, had mucoid regulator gene rmpA, and exhibited high virulence. The finding suggests the emergence of carbapenem-resistant hypervirulent K. pneumoniae of ST36, and surveillance of carbapenem-resistant hypervirulent K. …
Low quality healthcare costs time and money says this new report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) , Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the World Bank. Poor quality health services are holding back progress on improving health in countries at all income levels, not just low- …
This report takes a detailed look at the current status of childhood immunization in 10 priority countries: Afghanistan, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan and Uganda. In each country, childhood immunization coverage is broken down by multiple factors to show inequality according to child, …
Evidence continues to mount that foodborne illness imposes a staggering health burden in developing countries. However, standard approaches used by developed country governments to ensure food safety are not appropriate in settings where regulatory enforcement capacity is weak and most firms are small and informal. Thus, interventions to improve food …
Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are fundamental to people’s health and survival, to economic development, and to the wellbeing of humanity. Several decades of research have shown—and continue to show—the profound and measurable benefits of investment in sexual and reproductive health. Through international agreements, governments have committed to …
Chikungunya spreads round the year and is as prevalent as dengue, NIV finds after redefining symptoms Chikungunya is as widely prevalent in India as dengue but tends to get overlooked or missed due to greater focus on dengue, a new study by the ICMR-National Institute of Viorology has found. Cases …
