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 …
COIMBATORE:The city stands on top of the list when it comes to the number of people having health insurance cover, thanks to the growing awareness among citizens for quality healthcare and the new-age finance. According to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2015-16, 75% of the surveyed households in the …
It is a proven fact that there are links between asthma, hay fever and eczema and an individual who has one condition is likely to have others. New Delhi: Researchers have identified over 100 genes that act as risk factors for developing one of the several allergic diseases hay-fever, eczema …
Although there is a nip in the air, but the cases of dengue and chikungnya are still being reported every day. As many as 10 dengue cases were confirmed today. The total number of patients affected with dengue this year has risen to 1,017. The Health Department has asked city …
Prasad also called for strong guidelines for the fast food chains in India so that the burning issue of health hazards by antimicrobial resistance (AMR) can be tackled. Director General of Health Services (DGHS) Jagdish Prasad has called for small and big fast food chains in India to stop using …
The number of stunted children in Africa is on the rise, according to the newly released nutrition report by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa. The Africa Nutrition Report, launched this week in Abidjan, Ivory Coast describes the current status in relation to six global nutrition targets …
The bill providing for the implementation of a tax on sugary beverages — the health promotion levy — was passed by the National Assembly on Tuesday. The adoption of the measure, which will be introduced in April 2018, came after extensive public hearings by Parliament’s finance and health committees as …
When a condition commonly associated with a lifetime of alcohol abuse — severe scarring of the liver, or cirrhosis — starts to show up in children as young as eight, something is very wrong. Original Source
The antibiotics used in animals can enter the human body and make it resistant to the drugs. With the increase in the antibiotic injected poultry and meat consumed by people, the centre is concerned about the ill-effects of this practice. They have now proposed a regulation of these drugs injected …
Hospital says it did not overcharge The Haryana government on Tuesday ordered a probe into an allegation that Fortis Hospital in Gurgaon had overcharged the family of a seven-year-old girl, who died of dengue, hours after the Centre asked it to initiate an urgent inquiry. The private hospital denied the …
AGRA: With the state government abandoning three supplementary nutrition programmes, to tackle high malnutrition rates among women and children, district officials here are left with only 'panjiri' (a staple made from whole-wheat flour and sugar) to improve the health of nearly 90,000 children below the age of five years across …
Most respondents felt there was a nexus between labs, doctors Close on the heels of Gurugram-based Fortis Memorial Research Institute (FMRI) allegedly overcharging the family of a seven-year-old dengue patient who died recently at the hospital, a survey conducted about the common man’s perception on “corruption” in the healthcare system …
Recent in vitro and animal studies have found the proton pump inhibitor (PPI) lansoprazole to be highly active against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Omeprazole and pantoprazole have no activity. There is no evidence that, in clinical practice, lansoprazole can treat or prevent incident tuberculosis (TB) disease. Original Source
Although significant progress has been made in reducing malaria transmission globally in recent years, a large number of people remain at risk and hence the gains made are fragile. Funding lags well behind amounts needed to protect all those at risk and ongoing contributions from major donors, such as the …
The specificity of nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) used for early infant diagnosis (EID) of HIV infection is <100%, leading some HIV-uninfected infants to be incorrectly identified as HIV-infected. The World Health Organization recommends that infants undergo a second NAAT to confirm any positive test result, but implementation is limited. …
In 1965, the Sugar Research Foundation (SRF) secretly funded a review in the New England Journal of Medicine that discounted evidence linking sucrose consumption to blood lipid levels and hence coronary heart disease (CHD). SRF subsequently funded animal research to evaluate sucrose’s CHD risks. The objective of this study was …
While on the one hand it is critical to control overuse, on the other there is need to improve antibiotics access to the poor and vulnerable When it comes to antibiotics use, India faces a twin challenge. A ‘skewed’ ground reality that requires it to control overconsumption of antibiotics and …
To limit antibiotics in meat The Union Health Ministry, through the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), has notified an amendment to the Food Safety & Standards (Contaminants, Toxins & Residues) Regulations, 2011. The notification, dated November 7, contains maximum permissible limits of various antibiotics in meat and …
AHMEDABAD: Even as the temperatures have begun to dip and humidity levels falling, there is no respite from vector-borne infections. The cases of dengue have shown a sharp rise. According to the weekly health report released by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC)'s health department, some 71 cases of dengue were reported …
Studies have shown that drug resistance cases are on the rise across the world Concerned about rising levels of antibiotics in meat and poultry products consumed by citizens, the Centre has proposed to regulate the quantity of 137 drugs that can be pumped into the animals' bodies. Indiscriminate use of …
