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 …
Most restaurant owners support a full ban on smoking in their establishments, according to a recent study. The Cabinet has approved the Control of Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Bill, which provides for a ban on smoking at outdoor public places. The aim of the legislation is to cut …
To determine trends, mortality rates, and costs of antimicrobial resistance in invasive bacterial infections in hospitalized children, we analyzed data from Angkor Hospital for Children, Siem Reap, Cambodia, for 2007–2016. A total of 39,050 cultures yielded 1,341 target pathogens. Resistance rates were high; 82% each of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella …
Straight after the MBBS result was declared, our batch was given the order to start the internship/housestaff-ship of twelve months' duration. It is laid down by the Medical Council of India as a mandatory precondition to become a fully registered medical practitioner. At present, the clamour for internship is growing …
KOCHI: You would be surprised to know that the number of asthma patients in Kerala are rising and many among them have no family history. The footfalls at chest and pulmonary departments in specialty hospitals have increased manifold, said pulmonologists. So, on World Asthma Day doctors have a message for …
LUCKNOW: Researchers of the respiratory medicine department at King George’s Medical University (KGMU) have identified a biomarker to detect asthma which can be a big breakthrough in making the diagnosis of obstructive airway disease easy through a simple blood test. Till now, spirometry, an effort-based procedure, is being used to …
NEW DELHI: The next time you clean your face with a scrub or face wash, you could not only be contributing to water pollution but also causing decline in aquatic life. A new study released by environmental NGO Toxics Link on Monday has found a high concentration of microplastics in …
Today is World Asthma Day. ‘Never too early, never too late. It's always the right time to address airways disease,’ is this year’s theme. May 1st is celebrated as World Asthma Day to raise the awareness about this chronic respiratory disease, which is majorly prevalent in children these days. In …
The world is witnessing major shifts in dietary patterns and – in parallel – the threat to agricultural biodiversity. The implications for human health and the resilience of our food systems are significant. Agricultural landscapes are becoming increasingly simplified as the number of crops and crop varieties grown on farms …
India has registered significant improvement in an area where it has lagged — maternal deaths have reduced from 167 in 2011-13 to 130 (per 100,000 live births) in 2014-16 with Kerala leading the table, according to new data released by the registrar general of India.
Govt to come out with policy to upgrade facilities Jammu and Kashmir health sector is likely to go through a major overhaul in infrastructure and human resource management as the state government is pushing for the implementation of its first health policy. From a three-tier system in the Health and …
Last year's goverment resolution to not serve junk food to school students has brought several changes this year. While some students are being encouraged to eat fruits by their schools, others are inculcating in students the habit of eating all types of home-cooked food, brought by parents who take turns …
Japanese encephalitis (JE) has been taking a heavy toll on Assam – the worst ever in the country. Even as the death toll by this vector-borne disease in the State keeps on falling since 2014, the State is still the leader in the country when the number of people claimed …
Pune: Experts associated with the Indian Academy of Paediatrics’ (IAP) city chapter have extended full support to the government’s immunisation efforts to save lives of children below five from vaccine-preventable diseases. The country’s aim is to meet the Sustainable Development Goals by reducing neonatal mortality to at least as low …
IN MAY 2014 DOZENS of mourners attended the funeral of a healer in the Kailahun District of eastern Sierra Leone. She had died after tending to people struck by fever, vomiting and bloody diarrhoea. As women ritually washed her corpse, 14 of them contracted the virus that had killed her …
HYDERABAD: In 2017, Telangana could have reported at least 35-40 dengue deaths, most of them from Hyderabad. Yet, not one gets reflected in the data complied under the ministry of health and family welfare’s ‘National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme’. While it pegs the total dengue cases for the year …
PATNA: At least 115 malaria cases were reported across Bihar from January till March this year, as per the monthly surveillance report available on the state health society’s website. Of these, 102 were caused by plasmodium vivax parasite and 13 by plasmodium falciparum parasite. The health department has also identified …
Trichy: Some like it hot and spicy, but doctors warn that consuming very hot or too spicy food regularly could lead to cancer of the esophagus. Already, the change in food habits has caused an increase in the prevalence of esophageal cancer in India, some city-based oncologists said here on …
There are patients who are put on dialysis and then treated with medication for malaria. Hyderabad: Kidney dysfunction is a contributing factor in severe malaria cases according to research carried out by PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Understanding the manner in which malaria affects the kidney will help in improved treatment …
India contributes the highest malaria cases outside Africa. Hyderabad: With Sri Lanka having officially eradicated malaria in 2016 and China poised to do so by 2020, the question of whether India can get rid of the disease at least by 2030 has become an important one in medical circles. In …
In this cluster-randomized trial, we assigned communities in Malawi, Niger, and Tanzania to four twice-yearly mass distributions of either oral azithromycin (approximately 20 mg per kilogram of body weight) or placebo. Children 1 to 59 months of age were identified in twice-yearly censuses and were offered participation in the trial. …
