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 …
Two weeks before the 193 member-states of the United Nations approve the sustainable development agenda for 2030 in New York, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says Latin America and the Caribbean have achieved several key objectives of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Although these goals …
Nagpur: Thirty per cent of diseases in the world are caused due to environmental factors. Unfortunately, the burden of these diseases is much higher in children. The exposure to various chemicals, directly or indirectly, causes worst effects on human physiology, disrupting its normal functioning and causing diseases as serious as …
Around 9.5% of total population above 18 years of age in the state have blood glucose level greater than or equal to 110mg/dl, says a recently released Clinical, Anthropometric and Biochemical (CAB) 2014. According to the doctors, blood glucose level greater than or equal to 110mg/dl is not normal and …
Approximately half of the US adult population has diabetes or is prediabetic, although prevalence of the disease appears to be leveling off after decades of increase, researchers said Tuesday. Nearly 40 percent of US adults had prediabetes and 12 to 14 percent had diabetes between 2011 and 2012, according to …
There have been 5,948 cases of dengue fever in Taiwan since May, mostly in the southern city of Tainan, the island’s health authorities said yesterday. Tainan recorded 5,247 cases yesterday, an increase of 363 since Sunday. Neighboring Kaohsiung reported 609 cases. Far fewer cases have been confirmed in other cities. …
Cases of a crippling vaccine-derived polio virus could spread in Ebola-ravaged Guinea and in Mali after a Guinean toddler travelled to Mali and became the country's first polio case in more than four years, the World Health Organization said on Monday. The case, caused by a strain of the virus …
A new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health finds that mobile phone records can be used to predict the geographical spread and timing of dengue epidemics. More people around the world are becoming vulnerable to this deadly virus as climate change expands the range …
Antibiotic resistance among enterococci and γ-proteobacteria is an increasing problem in healthcare settings. Dense colonization of the gut by antibiotic-resistant bacteria facilitates their spread between patients and also leads to bloodstream and other systemic infections. Antibiotic-mediated destruction of the intestinal microbiota and consequent loss of colonization resistance are critical factors …
Two children have been paralysed in the first polio outbreak in Europe for five years, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Both cases were in Ukraine where only half the children are fully immunised. It is likely large numbers of other children have also been infected without developing symptoms. …
A research team led by Kezhong Zhang, Ph.D., at the Wayne State University School of Medicine's Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, has discovered that exposure to air pollution has a direct adverse health effect on the liver and causes liver fibrosis, an illness associated with metabolic disease and liver …
Effects of pathogens on host life-history characteristics can be influenced by changes in the immune system that occur during development as well as by environmental factors that negatively affect immune system function. Amphibians worldwide are experiencing population declines from chytridiomycosis caused by the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Disease outbreaks can …
Particular types of hormonal contraceptives (HCs) and genital tract infections have been independently associated with risk of HIV-1 acquisition. We examined whether immunity in women using injectable depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), combined oral contraceptives (COC), or no HCs differs by the presence of cervicovaginal infections. Immune mediators were quantified in …
ALWAR: Diphtheria has reared its ugly head once again in Laxmangarh area of Alwar district. At least 10 suspected cases of diphtheria have been found in the area. They are all showing the symptoms of diphtheria. However, that they are diphtheria cases is yet to be confirmed as test reports …
Young adults living in a polluted city show early signs of cardiovascular risk, according to research presented at ESC Congress today by Dr Krzysztof Bryniarski from Jagiellonian University, Collegium Medicum in Krakow, Poland. Residing in a polluted city was associated with higher levels of inflammatory markers in otherwise healthy adolescents …
Microscope image showing the spherical particles of Mers-CoV within the cytoplasm of an infected cell Image caption This image shows spherical virus particles within the cytoplasm of an infected cell Saudi Arabia has announced four more deaths from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers), bringing the number of deaths in the …
Passive smoking raises the risk of periodontal disease for nonsmoking men by about 3.1 to 3.6 times, compared with men in smoke-free environments, according to a survey by Japanese researchers. A research team led by the National Cancer Center and Tokyo Medical and Dental University conducted follow-up dental checkups between …
Nearly 47 million people are living with dementia globally, up from 35 million in 2009. This is equivalent to one every 3.2 seconds, researchers from Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI) said in a report issued on Tuesday. The report estimated that 46.8 million individuals currently live with dementia, however, this figure …
A spike in plague cases has been recorded in the US in the last three months, the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention said. Eleven cases of plague have been recorded since April, with three of them fatal, said the Center, with the average number of plague cases across …
Public Health England analysed blood-sugar levels to estimate the number of people at risk of developing type-2 diabetes Up to five million people in England are at risk of developing type-2 diabetes, according to new data from Public Health England. Type-2 diabetes is closely linked to diet and obesity and …
An unusually high number of cases of human plague have been recorded by US health authorities since April—11 in all, with three of them fatal, officials said Tuesday. "It is unclear why the number of cases in 2015 is higher than usual," the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
