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 new vaccine was found to have given a longer immunity from typhoid than older vaccines and it required fewer doses for childhood immunisation. Bharat Biotech Ltd (BBL), a Hyderabad-based vaccine maker, on Wednesday, said that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has pre-qualified its typhoid conjugate vaccine. The new vaccine …
Cancer of the oral cavity is more prevalent among men in rural areas and lung cancer is more prevalent among males in urban areas. Hyderabad: Cancer prevalence follows different patterns for men and women and for those living in urban and rural areas in India. Cancer registries indicate that cervical …
JAIPUR: With state reported 3,619 cases of swine flu and 279 deaths in 2017, the health department conducted a video conferencing with officials in all the districts to remain alert on Wednesday. The department has sounded a red alert to prevent deaths due to the desease. The government has taken …
Pvt hospitals asked not to charge over Rs 2,200 for ventilators The Health Department is all set to deal with swine flu cases in the district. The possibility of such cases increases in winter. The Health Department today issued guidelines to private hospitals that they would not be allowed to …
Lal Chand (85) from Burj Hanuman Garh village, Fazilka, was admitted to the tuberculosis unit of the Civil Hospital on December 26, 2017, and had been undergoing treatment there since then. The octogenarian’s condition is deteriorating with each passing day. His treatment or sternly put his life now hinges on …
CHENNAI: It was not just dengue cases that went up in Tamil Nadu during the 2017 epidemic. There was an increase in the incidence of at least three other mosquito-borne diseases, shows data provided by the state health department to the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme. There was an …
There is a need to increase access to surgical treatments in African countries, but perioperative complications represent a major global health-care burden. There are few studies describing surgical outcomes in Africa. Original Source
The objective of the study was to investigate the kinetics and metabolism of caffeine in serum from patients with Parkinson disease (PD) and controls using liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry. Original Source
Most child deaths in India occur from treatable diseases like pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria and complications at birth. A recent alarming signal in the health profile of Indian children went largely unnoticed. India, whose growing prosperity has hardly made any significant dent into chronic malnutrition of children, slipped three places to …
Nagpur: 2014. The year in which the city witnessed outbreak of dengue with 601 cases. Since then, the number of dengue cases has been on the decline. But 2017 broken the pattern by witnessing more cases than the previous year, albeit marginally. The malaria and filarial department of the Nagpur …
LUCKNOW: In a joint research, scientists of biotechnology department of APJ Kalam Technical University and Jazan University, Saudi Arabia, have identified the gene which increases the risk of tuberculosis, its recurrence and development of drug resistance. In a research lasting over four years, scientists studied more than 2,000 international researches …
Thiruvananthapuram: A state-wide tuberculosis (TB) eradication programme will be inaugurated by health and social justice minister K K Shailaja on Wednesday. The programme aims at visiting households and collecting data on Tuberculosis-affected individuals, as a prelude to World Tuberculosis Day, which will be observed on March 24. The plan is …
VASCO: Alleging that the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC;) has acted contrary to its mandate of protecting the environment and public health, Goa Against Coal (GAC) members on Tuesday claimed that EAC’s act of recommending clearances in haste is unjust …
MUMBAI: A total 777 people succumbed to swine flu in Maharashtra in 2017, of which nearly 20 deaths were reported from the city. Nearly 1,000 people had tested positive for the viral infection last year from the city. Going by this analysis, the H1N1 virus hit the state harder in …
Jaipur: September and August remained the worst months for the people of the state in 2017 in terms of outbreak of swine flu. In these two months, 2,374 persons were tested positive while 149 had died. According to health department reports, 65.59% of swine flu cases in 2017 were reported …
At least 3 000 cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are recorded in Murewa annually with the Muslim community among those highly affected, a National Aids Council (NAC) research report shows. The research, which sought to establish the factors associated with high STIs in the district compared to other surrounding …
On disease prevention and control, the bloc is addressing key strategic interventions in establishing a regional information exchange system for communicable and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and a regional reference public health laboratory and strengthening national public health laboratories. The Head of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs, Mr Owora Othieno said …
Pharmacists in thirty districts across the country have been introduced to new TB medicines expected to improve the management and treatment of patients suffering from Tuberculosis. According to Floribert Biziyaremye, the in charge of Tuberculosis and other respiratory communicable diseases division at Rwanda Biomedical Centre, the target group is children …
Socioeconomically disadvantaged groups tend to experience more harm from the same level of exposure to alcohol as advantaged groups. Alcohol has multiple biological effects on the cardiovascular system, both potentially harmful and protective. We investigated whether the diverging relationships between alcohol drinking patterns and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality differed by …
There has been a drop in the number of vector-borne cases in 2017, as per the data released by the health department of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) on Monday. While dengue saw a drop of 62.83% cases as compared to 2016, chikungunya saw a drop of 43.40% cases, and …
