This document is the second in a series of global reports describing progress towards the 2030 targets set in Ending the neglect to attain the Sustainable Development Goals: a road map for neglected tropical diseases 2021–2030. It describes a wide range of activities, accomplishments and challenges across the portfolio of …
From the worrying rise in zoonotic diseases around the world to an examination of how climate change is increasing the toxicity of crops, a UNEP report seeks to highlight a number of the world’s key emerging environmental issues. UNEP’s Frontiers report identifies, highlights and offers solutions to six emerging issues, …
The World Health Statistics series is WHO’s annual compilation of health statistics for its 194 Member States. World Health Statistics 2016 focuses on the proposed health and health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and associated targets. It represents an initial effort to bring together available data on SDG health and health-related …
Uttarakhand has fared poorly in utilizing funds under the Rajya Vyadhi Nidhi (RVN) scheme, under which the state government pays up to Rs 2 lakh for treatment of BPL patients. According to sources, barely 57 patients were treated under the scheme in 2015-16. Since its implementation in 2005, only 892 …
Atmospherically transported dust from the Saharan desert provides pulses of biologically important nutrients, including iron, to ocean surface waters. The biological response to these ephemeral events is not fully known, especially among the heterotrophic microbial community. Here we use the well-characterized Vibrio genus as a model for heterotrophic bacterial response. …
We complain much about climate change but do we really understand its ramifications? Jayadev Calamur speaks to authorities on the subject to understand its impact on diseases, allergies and deaths Climate change is usually attributed as the cause of every natural phenomenon we face today. The big question is, do …
Antibiotics are essential for fighting bacterial infection, but, paradoxically, they can also make the body more prone to infection and diarrhoea by allowing gut pathogens to “breathe”, says a study. Antibiotics benefit pathogen growth by disrupting oxygen levels and fibre processing in the gut, the study said. The findings, published …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Diseases due to air pollution in metropolitan cities, 02/05/2016. Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has been regularly carrying out air quality monitoring under the National Air Quality Monitoring Programme (NAMP) since 1984, for three air pollutants viz., Sulphur Dioxide (SO2), Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) and …
Mchinji — Typhoid Fever has hit Mchinji district with confirmed cases of at least 18 people who tested positive to the disease. Mchinji District Hospital Public Relations Officer Frank Kaphaso Nyasulu told Malawi News Agency (Mana) Monday that all registered cases are from Traditional Authority (T.A.) Zulu's area. He said …
Nagpur: India loses a big number of children to severe diseases every year. Many of them can be saved if there are trained doctors to work in paediatric intensive care. Currently, there are less than 100 such specialists across the country. This issue was brought forth during the installation of …
Kampala — Three more people have died of suspected yellow fever in Bukakata sub-county in Masaka District. Bukakata sub-county neigbours Buwunga Sub-county where yellow fever outbreak was confirmed by the Ministry of Health early this week. According to Dr Stuart Musisi, the Masaka District health officer, another suspected patient was …
An outbreak of yellow fever has killed 21 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization (WHO) says, linking some cases to an outbreak in neighbouring Angola. In a statement, the WHO said the deaths had occurred in January to March, with 151 suspected cases recorded. There …
Following an influenza outbreak that has killed 39 infants in Nakuru County, the government has asked parents whose children under five years have a cough and fever to take them to hospital immediately. Since March 24, when the first case was reported, 296 Influenza cases have been confirmed. The health …
Urban India is more sick than the rural hinterland despite the mushrooming of health and wellness clinics and super-specialty hospitals, besides better per capita earnings. And this could well be attributed to increasing pollution levels and unhealthy dietary habits. A government health survey has revealed that around 11.8% of urban …
Urban India is more sick than the rural hinterland despite the mushrooming of health and wellness clinics and super-specialty hospitals, besides better per capita earnings. And this could well be attributed to increasing pollution levels and unhealthy dietary habits. A government health survey has revealed that around 11.8% of urban …
Wogonin and baicalein are bioactive flavones in the popular Chinese herbal remedy Huang-Qin (Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi). These specialized flavones lack a 4′-hydroxyl group on the B ring (4′-deoxyflavones) and induce apoptosis in a wide spectrum of human tumor cells in vitro and inhibit tumor growth in vivo in different mouse …
On the occasion of World Health Day 2016, WHO issues a call for action on diabetes, drawing attention to the need to step up prevention and treatment of the disease. The first WHO Global report on diabetes demonstrates that the number of adults living with diabetes has almost quadrupled since …
Google India in partnership with Apollo Hospitals announced a new feature that shows disease information in a card-like format. Google India in partnership with Apollo Hospitals today announced a new feature on search that shows disease information in a card-like format right on top of results. The cards will appear …
Mumbai: Countries in the WHO South-East Asia Region must take vigorous and concerted action to 'prevent, treat and beat' diabetes, said Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, regional director, WHO South-East Asia, ahead of World Health Day celebrated on April 7. "Diabetes rarely makes headlines, and yet it will be the world's …
Financial bids to be opened on May 25, scheme to be rolled out in a month PANJIM: For the first time in the country diabetes insulin will be covered under a State health insurance scheme, which is all set to be rolled out by the government in May this year. …
Waterborne diseases are the leading cause of mortality in developing countries. The paper emphasize a previously ignored cause of diarrhea - upstream river bathing. Using newly constructed data on upstream-downstream hydrological linkages along with village census panel data in Indonesia, find that upstream river bathing can explain as many as …
