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 …
Swine flu cases in Ahmedabad city crossed 1,000 on Monday, while the death toll in the state rose to 107 with four more patients succumbing to the H1N1 virus. The state health department said in a release that 106 swine flu cases were confirmed in the state today, taking the …
Vadodara: Even as Vadodara received temporary relief on Sunday with no swine flu deaths reported from the city or the district on Sunday, 12 new samples tested positive of H1N1 virus on the same day. Of the 12 cases, 10 have been reported from Gotri, Manjalpur, VIP Road, Warasiya, Karelibaug …
JAIPUR: To boost free medicine scheme in the state, the health department has approved contractual recruitment of around more than 3,700 employees for the financial year 2019-20. Ever since Ashok Gehlot-led government came into power in the state, health department has been taking measures to provide momentum to the free …
Large numbers of children remain malnourished in Laos, especially in poorer rural parts of the country, despite efforts by the UN World Food Programme and other concerned organisations to provide better food, sources in Laos say. Though numbers have improved slightly in recent years, the problem persists and is especially …
LOS ANGELES — Once again taking aim at President Trump, California on Monday filed its 47th lawsuit against the administration, this time to block a move that would effectively strip millions of federal dollars from reproductive health providers that perform abortions and abortion referrals. Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who has …
The Ondo State Government says it spends about N1.6 million to treat each patient affected with Lassa fever in the state. According to government record, a total of 115 persons were infected with the disease in the state between January and February 2019. Another 21 died from the disease within …
According to World Health Organisation (WHO) TB is the ninth leading cause of death worldwide and the leading cause from a single infectious agent, ranking above HIV/AIDS. Scientists are inventing a new vaccine in the management of Tuberculosis (TB) which they say will be effective in the resistance of the …
The 2015-2016 El Niño event brought weather conditions that triggered regional disease outbreaks throughout the world, according to a new NASA study that is the first to comprehensively assess the public health impacts of the major climate event on a global scale. El Niño is an irregularly recurring climate pattern …
Between April and June 2017, the school of health systems studies at TISS surveyed 375 tribal hutments with children aged under six, including 166 boys and 209 girls, in Vikramgad block of Palghar district. For young India,life-work balance new mantra,work-life balance passé: survey TISS study in Palghar on children under …
Sri Lanka's Health Ministry will introduce e-health cards by the end of this year, which will uplift the country's free state health sector, local media reported Thursday. Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne said the e-cards will include all the health information of an individual citizen which will make free health care …
Dengue fever is a major public health concern in many parts of South-East Asia and South America and its prevalence in Africa is thought to be expanding. Researchers have now conducted an analysis of the economic burden of dengue fever in Burkina Faso, Kenya and Cambodia. Their results appear this …
The spread of antimicrobial resistance in hospitals can be limited by sanitation methods that remodulate the hospital microbiota, leading to lower antimicrobial consumption and costs, according to a paper in Infection and Drug Resistance co-authored by two Bocconi University scholars (for the part related to costs) with University of Ferrara …
According to a researcher, Nitesh Pandey of Indian Astrobiology Research Foundation (IARF), H1N1 influenza spreads rapidly because it of it's presymptomatic nature. The symptoms appear 2-3 days after the virus has already entered one's body, he said. Pandey is a researcher in Evolutionary Medicine and his research on swine flu …
No fewer than 102 people have been confirmed to be positive with Lassa fever, in addition to 15 deaths recorded in Ondo State between January and February. Wale Oke, the State Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Akure. “As …
Zanzibar's anti-malaria campaign is paying off, with research showing a drop in transmission of about 94 per cent. A study conducted in two rural districts, North A (Unguja Island) and Micheweni (Pemba Island) and published in the journal, BMC Medicine, attributes this low transmission rate to a nationwide control programme …
Kenya's health ministry said Thursday it will increase budgetary allocations towards the fight against non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the country. Jackson Kioko, director of medical services in the Ministry of Health said that availability of sufficient funds will boost response to the rising toll of lifestyle diseases that have worsened …
The World Bank, supported by Japan, Germany and Australia, has allocated up to U.S. $80 million in grants over the next six months to help fight Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The grants will cover more than half the cost of the DRC government's drive to end …
Malnutrition in all its forms is a major challenge everywhere in the world, and particularly in low and middle income countries. To reduce malnutrition, innovations in food systems are needed to both provide sufficient options for consumers to obtain diets with adequate nutritional value, and to help consumers make conscious …
The diseases afflicting the African population are responsible for a substantial loss in health, estimated at 704 765 879 DALYs in 2015 alone. In the WHO African Region, total losses amounted to 629 603 271 DALYs. Out of that total, 416 671 978 DALYs (59.1%) were from communicable, maternal, perinatal …
The review, published in Nature, outlines how healthcare workers in low-income countries, like those in sub-Saharan Africa, could use existing smartphones to diagnose, track and control infectious diseases in low-income countries. There are already initiatives focused on using established mobile technologies like text messages and calls to connect healthcare workers …
