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 …
Even as dengue continues unabated in the city, the change in weather has led to many Mumbaikars, especially the elderly and children, contracting respiratory tract infections. Consultant general physician, Breach Candy Hospital, Dr Hemant Thacker said, “We are getting a lot many people with gruff voice, runny nose and throat …
Climate change : Evidence, impact on vector borne diseases and remedial measures - A presentation by Ramesh C Dhiman at the 4th National Research Conference on Climate Change, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, October 26-27, 2013.
At least 22 people are suspected of having polio in Syria, the first outbreak of the crippling viral disease in 14 years, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday. Most of those stricken with acute flaccid paralysis, a symptom of diseases including polio, in Deir al-Zor province are children …
Global efforts to rein in tuberculosis helped cut the death toll to 1.3 million last year, but drug-resistant forms of the disease are sparking huge concern, the WHO said Wednesday. The TB toll is the world’s second-highest for an infectious disease, after HIV/AIDS. In its annual report on the fight …
A new study has found a 10 per cent increase in the number of HIV-infected cases in Australia, which is said to be the fastest in the last two decades. A latest annual report was released by Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales on Sexually Transmissible Infections …
In the past few years, there has been an increase in infections caused by fungal aetiology. This is mainly due to increase in sizes of populations which are at risk. Also, fungi which were previously considered as non-pathogenic have been increasingly implicated. Hence, this study was taken up.
A total of 7,854 patients of AIDS (Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) have been registered in various hospitals of the country by April. A document of Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination placed in Parliament said the total registered AIDS patients in Islamabad are 1,516 …
Akhi Akhter (11), a promising student of class-V of Rajapur Government Primary School at Karapara union under Bagerhat Sadar upazila, over 300 km away from capital Dhaka, had to stop schooling due to severe pain coupled with fever. Her father Tayebur, the lone bread earner of a 5-member family is …
A total of 1,497 people died of infectious diseases on the Chinese mainland in August, with AIDS the top cause of death, according to figures released by health authorities on Monday. AIDS infections resulted in 1,102 deaths last month, according to a statement posted on the website of the National …
Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases have shown a worrying increase in the state and their number has shown almost 100% rise in eight southern districts of Punjab in the past one year. Sources said around 340 MDR-TB cases were detected in the state last year. However, around 250 positive cases …
The Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy—South Asia Regional Edition presents key changes in the leading causes of premature mortality and disability in South Asia and explores intraregional differences in diseases, injuries, and risk factors. The publication shows that non-communicable diseases are increasingly causing more premature mortality and …
Tuberculosis cases are on the rise in the northeastern state of Mizoram with around 600 cases being detected during the first six months this year against only 80 cases in the entire year last year, officials said here Monday. "There were 592 fresh tuberculosis cases reported in Mizoram during January …
With the data provided by the Centre for Pollution Control (CPC), it has been found that majority of the city hospitals have been flouting the norms for biomedical waste treatment. CPC is a private organization, authorized by the VMC to collect and treat the biomedical waste from the city hospitals. …
As many as 32,664 children below five years have died in Mumbai city and suburbs in the past five years (from 2008 to 2012). The alarming number was revealed through Right To Information (RTI) Act. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) gave the figure to RTI activist Chetan Kothari. “It was …
Bhutan has diagnosed 24 new HIV positive cases between December 1, 2012 and June 30 this year, taking the country’s total number of detected cases to 321, almost two decades after it detected its first case. Of the new 24 cases, 13 are males and the rest females. According to …
Medical experts yesterday said that HIV positive cases continued to show an alarming increase in Sri Lanka. Director of the Health Ministry’s National STD/AIDS Control Programme (NSACP) Dr. Sisira Liyanage told The Island that homosexuality was partly responsible for the prevalent rate of HIV and AIDS in the country. Dr. …
Global climate change is increasing Bangladesh’s vulnerability to floods and raising the potential for infectious disease outbreaks, says the latest Health and Science bulletin of the icddr,b, reports UNB. The assessment, titled ‘Preparedness of Primary Healthcare facilities to Respond to Infectious Disease Outbreaks in Flood-prone Sub-Districts of Bangladesh’, identified gaps …
As the world marked World Hepatitis Day on Sunday, experts in Patna say out of five strains of Hepatitis - also known as inflammation of liver - 'E' form has assumed epidemic portion in certain parts of the city. Hepatitis-E spreads through contaminated food and water. "In Patna, it has …
There are about 15 million people suffering from hepatitis B and C in Pakistan. The prevalence of hepatitis C is around 4.8 percent and that of hepatitis B is nearly around 2.5 percent in Pakistan. A comprehensive effort by the Government is urgently required if we are to prevent millions …
: In the first six months of this year 16 people have died of HIV/AIDS in Sri Lanka, the Director of the HIV Prevention Programme Dr. Sisira Liyanage has said. According to Dr. Liyanage 90 people have been identified as HIV patients this year and 7 of them are children. …
