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 …
Windhoek-Last year, Namibia was ranked the fifth highest country in the world in terms of tuberculosis (TB) incidence rate, with 9,154 cases of TB recorded. Deputy Minister of Health and Social Services Juliet Kavetuna revealed this at the launch of the nationwide Tuberculosis Disease Prevalence Survey last Thursday. “Despite this …
Rajkot: A 55-year-old woman from Naduna village about 10km from Jamnagar city died of swine flu on Thursday. Rasilaben Akbari was admitted to the GG Hospital in Jamnagar a couple of days ago. She tested positive for H1N1 virus on Wednesday and died on Thursday morning. Three others are admitted …
Madurai: The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Thursday ordered the government to set up special wards for H1N1 patients in district headquarters hospitals in the state in four months. The division bench of justices K K Sasidharan and G R Swaminathan gave this direction on a public …
Pune: The Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD) or monkey fever has spread to newer areas in the state. The virus, which was first reported from a village in Maharashtra's Sindhudurg district in January last year, has now spread to over 60 villages. It has infected 331 people and killed 19 in …
The patients, who are undergoing treatment at private hospitals, are said to be stable. Hyderabad: Three more cases of swine flu have been reported in Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy, this time in Santosh Nagar, Bowenpally and Alwal areas. The patients, who are undergoing treatment at private hospitals, are said to …
The minister said the man had earlier tested negative for fevers like dengue and malaria The Tamil Nadu government today sought to allay fears over discovery of the first Zika case, saying the victim has already been cured and the village from which it was reported is under close watch. …
After three adults tested positive for the Zika virus in Ahmedabad district, Gujarat in January this year, an adult male from Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu tested positive for the Zika virus. This is the first case of Zika from Tamil Nadu. According to the State Health Secretary J. Radhakrishnan, …
MUMBAI: Every fifth person who underwent a test for influenza H1N1since April in the city has tested positive for the virus. The wide footprint of swine flu becomes clearer given that only a fraction of H1N1 patients -those hospitalized or belonging to the high-risk groups -are being tested according to …
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu public health authorities on Monday reported the first case of Zika from a sleepy hamlet in Krishnagiri district in the state, nearly two months after the World Health Organization confirmed three cases in India. On June 26, a 28-year-old tailor in Natranpalayam Panchayat, arrived at the Anchetty …
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said antibiotic resistance is making gonorrhoea, a sexually-transmitted disease, "much harder and sometimes impossible" to treat, as it cited data from 77 countries including India. The World Health Organization (WHO) has said antibiotic resistance is making gonorrhoea, a sexually-transmitted disease, “much harder and sometimes …
Doctors feel misuse will lead to a situation of medicines turning ineffective Concerns regarding a build-up of resistance to antiviral drugs used to treat swine flu are surfacing, after two such drugs — Oseltamivir and Zanamivir — were taken off the restrictive Schedule X of the Drugs and Comestics Rules. …
Basic ingredient of turmeric, in the form studied, is understood to be five times more ‘bioavailable’ in mice than in the regular one Curcumin, the basic ingredient of turmeric, when administered in a nanoparticle formulation has several favourable properties in the treatment of tuberculosis in mice, researchers have found. Prof. …
MANGALURU: While June saw the district record its first dengue death, July has recorded first H1N1 death this year. Health officials rue that though the district has high awareness about vector borne and other diseases, the deaths are avoidable if patients approach healthcare facilities when fever symptoms are noticed. Even …
MUMBAI: The antiviral oseltamivir used to treat influenza H1N1 will be more widely available with the Union health ministry taking it off the stringent schedule X list. Now, patients will no longer need prescriptions in triplicate to buy the drug, but it would still not be available over the counter. …
Dar es Salaam — The government plans to include a new generic version of the anti-retroviral drug Dolutegravir (DTG) in the national HIV/Aids treatment protocols. Kenya became the first African country to include the drug in its treatment programmes. The Minister of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Ms …
With nip in temperature and humidity, two cases of swine flu (H1N1 positive) were reported in the city on Tuesday. Both the patients are females. This year, 79 people were found to have been infected with the virus out of which 12 died. According to the health department of the …
PANJIM: The staff at Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMC) got into a state of panic, as two patients were admitted in the hospital with swine flu symptoms. The panic worsened when one of the patients tested positive for swine flu. Medical Superintendent Dr SN Bandekar informed Herald that a …
Kenya has become the first African country to introduce the generic version of the new first-line drug Dolutegravir (DTG) for people living with HIV. Kenya and Unitaid (global health initiative working with partners to end world’s tuberculosis, HIV/Aids and malaria epidemic) announced the rollout of the drug, which has been …
MUMBAI: Despite an active circulation of the H1N1 influenza virus in the city since February, there is a time lag of 4-5 days before the onset of symptoms and initiation of treatment by doctors. Experts recommend that the antiviral is most effective when administered within the first 48 hours. In …
Lucknow: A 63-year-old woman was tested positive with swine flu in the city on Tuesday. A resident of Khurshaed Bagh in Ganeshganj, the woman became the 11th case of the influenza A H1N1 virus in the city and was admitted to the swine flu ward of Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate …
