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 …
Kinshasa — AT LEAST 16 people have died as a result of the worsening outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) this year. The deaths are from 20 new confirmed cases during the period. This brings to 390 the number of people that have succumbed to …
Mr. Kojo Adih, Acting Volta Regional Population Officer, National Population Council (NPC), has suggested that family planning methods should be made accessible and free for rural dwellers. He said that would help achieve a reduction in the fast growing population of the country, which currently stood at 30.2 million, according …
PATNA: No case of humans getting infected with the bird flu virus has been detected in Bihar so far, a senior state government official said. "Among the reported cases of suspected or confirmed bird flu, we have not come across with any such incident (of humans getting infected with the …
The Civil Surgeon held a swine flu review meeting with health officials here today as the number of cases is on the rise in the district. During the meeting, Civil Surgeon Manjit Singh discussed steps to check the upsurge of cases over the last week. He reviewed the preparedness of …
Don’t panic, be cautious, undergo vaccination, say experts A significant increase has been registered in the number of swine-flu cases at the PGIMS, Rohtak, this year, though doctors maintained that there was no need to panic and people just needed to be cautious and take vaccinations for the disease. Dr …
BENGALURU: Key posts pertaining to prevention and awareness of monkey fever have remained vacant in Shivamogga, Uttara Kannada and Dakshina Kannada districts, where field stations have been set up to track prevalence of the disease and follow up on identified cases. The vacant posts include that of three medical officers …
PATNA: State health minister Mangal Pandey will inaugurate measles-rubella vaccination campaign at Gardanibagh Girls High school on Tuesday. The five-week-long campaign is expected to cover four crore children in the state. Unicef communication specialist Nipurnh Gupta said children from nine months to 15 years of age will be administered one …
Meerut: The state health department has sounded alert after number of confirmed cases of H1N1 swine flu virus touched 24 in January. With this, the Meerut district has 42 confirmed cases of swine flu disease between December 2018 and January 2019. Director General (Medical and Health), UP, Padmakar Singh, said, …
MUMBAI: Around 70 schools in the city continue to refuse the measles rubella vaccination even as the campaign comes to close in a fortnight. BMC officials said that in the last 45 days since the programme kicked off in Mumbai, along with the rest of the state, only 50% of …
Making cancer detection more easy and quick, scientists developed a cancer-detecting breathalyzer that can detect cancer just through a person’s breath and have already begun its clinical trials. A UK-based diagnostics company ‘Owlstone Medical’ designed a cancer detection device that will be able to detect multiple cancers simply through a …
A US federal judge has blocked new Trump administration regulations on birth control from applying across the entire country. The rules allow employers and insurers to decline to provide birth control if doing so violates their "religious beliefs" or "moral convictions". The rules were to come into effect nationwide from …
•Unveils disbursement of N55b healthcare fund •Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supports healthcare fund with $ 1.5m President Muhammadu Buhari has launched second National Strategic Health Development Plan from 2018-2022) to attain the Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria.He also unveiled the first phase of the N55 billion Basic Health Care …
Ebola task force in Western Equatoria region is on high alert as Ebola cases continue to rise in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, health officials said on Tuesday. Over five hundred cases are reported with over three hundred death cases in northern Congo which share borders with South Sudan. …
Two out of the eight people admitted at Naguru hospital with cholera symptoms, tested positive to the disease - pending confirmatory tests by the Central Public Health Laboratories (CPHL). The group of patients was referred to Naguru from Kabowa in Rubaga division after they presented cholera like symptoms of diarrhea …
Two out of the eight people admitted at Naguru hospital with cholera symptoms, tested positive to the disease - pending confirmatory tests by the Central Public Health Laboratories (CPHL). The group of patients was referred to Naguru from Kabowa in Rubaga division after they presented cholera like symptoms of diarrhea …
NEW DELHI: The health ministry was actively mulling compulsory licensing, apart from price capping, of “orphan drugs” (for rare diseases), when the department of pharmaceuticals abruptly issued an order exempting such medicines from price control, derailing plans to make these drugs affordable. The health ministry discussed price capping and invoking …
If you are among those who thought or believed that dengue mosquitoes bit only early in the morning or before dusk, then beware! It’s time you stopped getting complacent at night, because city doctors say the dengue-causing aedes aegypti mosquitoes are now biting even at night. In the past couple …
JAIPUR: Jodhpur is witnessing one of its worst outbreaks of swine flu as one more patient succumbed to the disease on Sunday taking total toll to six in past six days. Health department is taking lessons from pulse polio micro-plan to combat swine flu in Jodhpur. It has directed principals …
The Health Department has geared up to tackle swine flu cases from the district. Necessary kits have been provided to all government and private hospitals and vaccination of the hospital staff, who can come in contact with swine flu patients has also been done. Separate isolated wards have been prepared …
BHOPAL: Every fourth person detected with H1N1 infection died in Madhya Pradesh last year, making it one of the worst performing state in the country, while dealing with the virus. Though the number of H1N1infection drastically dropped from 802 (in 2017) to 80 (in 2018), the mortality rate doubled, according …
