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 …
The United Nations warns more than two million severely acutely malnourished children in Democratic Republic of Congo are at risk of dying unless they receive urgently needed therapeutic aid. Years of violence and unrest in Democratic Republic of Congo have displaced more than 4.5 million people, creating widespread poverty and …
Kinshasa — A raging cholera outbreak has killed more than 150 people in Central and West Africa since the beginning of the year. The unstable Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the worst affected by the crisis that has claimed the lives of at least 153 victims in the two …
The latest Lassa fever outbreak in country has claimed four more lives, caused 12 confirmed new cases and 265 fresh suspected infections in one week. An update released yesterday by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), showed that between March 5-11, 2018, 12 new confirmed cases were recorded from …
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday said at least 3.1 million people in Nigeria's northeast cannot access healthcare due to Boko Haram's violence in the region. In a report released in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the WHO said 755 health facilities were destroyed following armed attacks by the …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Toddy Shop Licensee Association & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 13/03/2018 to treat toddy as liquor while enforcing the highway liquor ban in Kerala. Supreme Court while disposing of the Applications stated that the Court has …
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is becoming a serious global problem. It is estimated that it might lead to 10 million deaths per year and loss of outputs worth US $100 trillion by 2050. Antibiotic misuse in food-animal production is one of the key causes of AMR. This study examines select fast …
Within the human host, the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is exposed to multiple selection pressures. The host environment changes dramatically in severe malaria, but the extent to which the parasite responds to—or is selected by—this environment remains unclear. From previous studies, the parasites that cause severe malaria appear to increase …
CHENNAI: The state government kick-started the second phase of the pulse polio immunisation campaign on Sunday with close to 65 lakh children below the age of five receiving oral form of the vaccine on the first day. Health minister C Vijayabaskar inaugurated the campaign from Kamarajapuram in Pudukottai. The health …
PATNA: With the Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) virtually failing to curb breeding of mosquitoes in various localities of the city, people are at the receiving end here. Despite using all types of repellents, residents of the city are experiencing disturbed sleep due to mosquito bites even during the daytime. The …
Sunalini Mathew Even if you don’t know the numbers, you simply need to walk into the medical room of a school to know that a nebuliser is standard equipment. With rising outdoor and indoor pollution, high stress, and poor eating habits, asthma is one more ‘lifestyle disease’ so many people …
A group of doctors have written a letter to PM Modi demanding that the Centre exercise its right of ‘Compulsory Licensing’ (CL) for Bedaquiline and Delaminid, which treat drug-resistant forms of the deadly bacteria. It means that Pharma companies — US-based Janssen and Japan-based Otsuka, will have to transfer manufacturing …
Panaji: Goa may score on the public healthcare system, but it appears that this isn’t enough to control lifestyle diseases like diabetes and hypertension, the two chief causes of renal failure. In the Goa Medical College (GMC) and hospital, at Bambolim, alone there about 450-500 end-stage renal disease patients on …
Agriculture minister Pocharam Srinivas Reddy on Sunday held a meeting with LIC officials to finalise the modalities for the scheme. Hyderabad: The Rs 5-lakh free insurance scheme for farmers announced by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao recently will be implemented from June 2 on the occasion of Telangana State Formation …
A human rights lawyer plans to launch a class action lawsuit against South African food producer Tiger Brands on behalf of the families of people who died and those affected by the worst listeria outbreak in history. South Africa’s health minister said on Thursday the government would support anyone intending …
There has been little investigation into whether the “social gradient to health”—whereby people belonging to groups higher up the social ladder have better health outcomes than those belonging to groups further down—exists in developing countries like India. The relative strengths of economic and social status in determining the health status …
Physical inactivity is an important cause of noncommunicable diseases. Interventions can increase short-term physical activity (PA), but health benefits require maintenance. Few interventions have evaluated PA objectively beyond 12 months. We followed up two pedometer interventions with positive 12-month effects to examine objective PA levels at 3–4 years. Original Source
NEW DELHI: The "exorbitant" cost of medical treatment in India on Thursday drew attention of the Supreme Court which told the government to "do something" as the people were unable to get treatment due to the "huge cost". The apex court's remarks assume significance as the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority …
Invites proposals from the pharma industry to produce affordable medicines The World Health Organisation (WHO), on Tuesday, invited pharmaceutical companies around the world to submit proposals to manufacture affordable versions of newer medicines for treatment of drug resistant tuberculosis. A WHO spokesman said the aim was to replicate the success …
HYDERABAD: A novel species of a bacterium that produces antibiotic has been discovered by a professor in the University of Hyderabad (UoH) and his researchers, the university said on Thursday. "Found in the Buffalo Lake on the UoH campus, the newly discovered bacterium, Planctopirus hydrillae, may provide a solution to …
This study in the American Journal of Children and Media tells you why children choose junk food over health food! According to a study published in the Journal of Children and Media, children prefer junk snacks over traditional home-cooked food and this choice has been attributed to powerful marketing strategies …
