Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Nashik: If the data furnished by the Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) centre — the only government clinic in the district to treat all HIV/AIDS patients — is anything to go by, then there is a declining trend of HIV/AIDS patients in the district. As per the data, even death cases of …
The World Health Organization says experts are starting to carry out Ebola vaccinations in Congo's latest deadly outbreak. Health officials have warned that containing the outbreak is complicated by the presence of multiple armed groups in the northeast region that borders Uganda and Rwanda. Congo's health ministry says at least …
The World Health Organization says vaccinations are expected to begin this week, perhaps as early as Wednesday, to help stem the latest Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. WHO estimates put the number of confirmed and probable cases of Ebola at 43, including 34 deaths. The WHO …
When she discovered she was HIV-positive early this year, sex worker Evelyn Msipa, 32, was alone in her rented apartment in Zimbabwe's capital Harare. She wept on seeing the result from the self-testing kit she had used, then rushed to a local health centre where she received counselling before the …
Health workers in Congo were setting up refrigerators on Monday to keep cool an Ebola vaccine needed to tackle an outbreak suspected to have infected 43 people, the health ministry said. Giving the latest figures on the epidemic, which was declared just days after an outbreak in northwestern Congo 2,500 …
Ebola is suspected to have caused as many as 33 deaths during the latest outbreak of the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the health ministry said. Thirteen cases of the virus were confirmed across northeastern North Kivu province and neighbouring Ituri province, DRC's health minister said in …
The Minister of Health, Prof. Israel Adewole, on Monday launched a scheme, Alliance for Epidemic Preparedness and Response (A4EPR) aimed at getting the major stakeholders in health sector to combat infectious diseases. The launch which took place in Lagos was an initiative of the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria …
Young alcoholics living with latent and symptomless tuberculosis infections appear to face a higher risk of developing active TB, medical researchers in India and the US have said after a joint study. Their study has indicated that chronic alcohol consumption enhances the production of a key immune system biochemical called …
Experts state that the overall incidence of diarrhea is as high as 30 per cent in the population and deaths are as high as 13 per cent. Hyderabad: The Rotavirus infection in children suffering from acute gastro-enteritis below five years of age is as high as 18.3 per cent in …
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has announced a new outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, just days after a recent emergence of the disease, which killed 33 people, was declared over. Four cases of the virus were confirmed in northeastern North Kivu province, the DRC's health minister said in …
KOLKATA: In the wake of the year’s first swine flu case, reported by The Times of India on Monday, the health department went into a huddle and sounded an alert. All health officials and hospitals across the city have been asked to look out for swine flu symptoms in patients …
NEW DELHI: Worried about consuming antibiotics through eggs, meat or milk? You may breathe a sigh of relief. The food regulator has decided to curb use of antibiotics and veterinary drugs to ensure safety of animal products such as processed meat, meat products, poultry and eggs, sea foods and milk. …
Finally, anti-bodies to three major Ebola viruses have now been developed. Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center are a step closer to developing a broadly effective antibody treatment against these viruses that cause the lethal disease in humans. Researchers found that the isolation of two potent monoclonal antibodies from human …
KOLKATA: Following the year’s first swine flu case, reported by The Times of India on Monday, the health department has sounded an alert. All health officials and hospitals across the city have been asked to look out for swine flu symptoms in patients and take precautionary measures. Director of health …
KOLKATA: The city’s first confirmed case of swine flu of 2018 was reported on Saturday after a software engineer tested positive for the H1N1 influenza virus. His minor child is being treated for suspected swine flu. The man is admitted in Fortis Hospital and his child is in Apollo. Authorities …
Democratic Republic of Congo may have declared an end to its ninth outbreak of the lethal Ebola virus since 1976, but health experts are already plotting ways to beat the next flare-up. From vaccines to apps, myth busting to health training, officials are looking at myriad options to better prepare …
A new report has disclosed that Nigeria is one of the 50 countries in the world where new HIV infections are rising. The report by the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS), said more than half of Nigerians (51 per cent) bears the burden of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome …
Early one morning in 2014, public health officials arrived at Anthony Wainaina’s workplace in Mwea town in Kenya’s Kirinyaga County, and arrested him. His crime — defaulting on his tuberculosis (TB) treatment, which would see him serve a two-year jail term. The 31-year-old matatu tout was diagnosed with multi-drug resistant …
NEW DELHI: Public health activists fear that India, Brazil and other developing countries could be caving in to US pressure going by the latest version of the UN’s draft political declaration on tuberculosis (TB). The declaration to be adopted by heads of state at a high-level meeting in New York …
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has officially declared the end of an outbreak of Ebola, bringing the curtain down on a 10-week re-emergence of the disease which claimed 33 lives. Health Minister Oly Ilunga made the announcement in a statement on Tuesday following "an observation period of 42 days …
