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 death toll of victims of the Lassa fever outbreak in Ebonyi State has risen to four, an official has said. The Commissioner for Health, Daniel Umezuruike, also said 139 persons have been placed under surveillance in the state. PREMIUM TIMES had reported how three health workers died from the …
Harare – Zimbabwean health officials have reportedly said that at least 200 cases of typhoid have been recorded in Harare, adding that the country is on high alert following a cholera outbreak in Zambia. According to Daily News, the health and child care ministry said that they were no deaths …
A newly released report indicates that a quarter (25%) of expectant mothers in Katakwi district are delivered by unskilled birth attendants. Vincent Mujune, the deputy programme director at ACT health programme, said quarter of pregnant mothers in the district deliver at home, especially by the help of traditional birth attendants. …
CHENNAI: In spite of effective and cheap treatment, prevalence of leprosy in Tamil Nadu has been steadily increasing since 2012, even as the national average recorded a decline. With a 5% increase in prevalence per 1,00,000 in five years, TN recorded 4,939 new cases in 2016-17 compared to 3,550 cases …
CHENNAI: Catching the small fry and letting go of the big fish has brought the state food safety department under the Comptroller and Auditor General of India's radar. The auditing body, in its latest report, rapped the commissionerate of food safety in Tamil Nadu - the biggest state department of …
Nearly seven out of 10 malaria cases in Tamil Nadu were reported from Chennai in 2017, according to data from the directorate of public health. The city had reported 3,303 of the total 4,671 malaria cases in the state till October 2017. In the eight months, the city had reported …
Ludhiana: The sale of swine flu vaccines has decreased this year due to change in strain of viruses and hospitals reporting lesser cases. Till now in 2018, only one case of a 70-year-old male has been reported, who eventually died in a Patiala hospital. In 2017 most of the cases …
The Chandigarh health department is also approaching the UT police so that one constable accompanies every team during the vaccination drive. According to the department, 97,780 children are expected to be vaccinated this month. IN A first, the Chandigarh health department has decided to launch a night pulse polio immunisation …
JAIPUR: Not worrying too much about her own risk of getting infected with swine flu, additional chief secretary (health) Veenu Gupta inspected houses of persons diagnosed with swine flu to check if her rapid response teams (RRT) have done their job properly to prevent the spread of swine flu. However, …
India registers best under-5 infant mortality rate since 2010 India posted its sharpest year-on-year decline in the under-5 infant mortality rate (u5) since 2010, according to figures from the Sample Registration Survey (SRS) made public this week. The u5, at 39 deaths per 1,000 live births, recorded a 5-point decline …
PATNA: The state government will launch measles rubella (MR) vaccination campaign in September this year. The central government had launched it in August last year. According to the national immunization goals, India has planned to eliminate measles and control congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) caused by the rubella virus by 2020. …
The Global Risks Report 2018 is published at a time of encouraging headline global growth. Any breathing space this offers to leaders should not be squandered: the urgency of facing up to systemic challenges has intensified over the past year amid proliferating signs of uncertainty, instability and fragility. This year’s …
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is associated with developing type 2 diabetes, but very few studies have examined its effect on developing cardiovascular disease. Original Source
Dharamshala: Himachal Pradesh will be free from tuberculosis by 2022. This was stated by Health minister Vipin Singh Parmar in Palampur on Monday while launching a campaign to locate active TB cases in Kangra, Bilaspur and Hamirpur. Parmar said 654 teams have been formed for the three districts and will …
CHENNAI: In the country's diabetes capital, it is only natural that worries of most residents are about high blood sugar and other complications. In 2017, at least one in three Chennaiites who logged into online consultation platforms asked diabetes-related queries. In 2015, sexual health topped the list of questions from …
Meerut: In a victory of sorts for a six-year-old student, who had approached the National Green Tribunal (NGT) against a poultry farm situated close to his school, the green panel on Monday trashed a stay petition filed by its owner and directed the administration in UP’s Shamli district to shut …
Jaipur: From March, children of the state will get a shield to protect themselves from fatal pneumococcal pneumonia. The Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) will be launched for children to bring down the mortality rate due to pneumonia which is a vaccine preventable disease. The training workshop for health department officials …
Aligarh, a densely populated town of Uttar Pradesh, is the hub of a variety of industries and is feared to be home to children at risk of lead exposure. Hence, this study was planned to determine the socio-demographic and clinical correlates of elevated blood lead levels in children of Aligarh. …
A seven month-long survey conducted by a gynecologist in various schools and colleges of Navi Mumbai to find out the risk factors associated with changing lifestyles showed that the main causes for lifestyle diseases are lack of physical activity and irregular food habits to name a few. Six hundred girls …
Junk food can make the body's defences more aggressive in the long term, according to a study which found that the immune system reacts similarly to a high fat and high calorie diet as to a bacterial infection. Even long after switching to a healthy diet, inflammation toward innate immune …
