WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
Chandigarh: Dr Ram Kumar, convener, Society for Promotion of Ethical & Affordable Healthcare on Saturday said the budgetary allocation to health sector is not only less, but it is also not steered towards preventive health measures and primary healthcare. Kumar was delivering a special lecture on ‘minimum medicines, maximum health’ …
JAIPUR: The state government has issued orders for observing every Sunday as ‘dry day’. Relax, beer guzzlers, wine lovers and regular tipplers, the order is not related to booze. Health department will observe ‘dry day’ to prevent mosquito-breeding in the state. It will encourage people to keep their air coolers, …
NEW DELHI: Delhi government has advised private hospitals and nursing homes to increase their capacity by up to 20% of the approved bed strength in view of increasing dengue, malaria and chikungunya cases. The tariff levied for such beds shall not be more than 50% of the lowest category at …
Obesity prevalence in women is between 22.8% and 34.8% while it is 23.4% in men. Hyderabad: Institutional studies carried out in south India have registered that overall cases of obesity and its prevalence was between 22.8 per cent to 34.8 per cent among women and 23.4 per cent in men. …
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 …
From September 1, only Karnataka Antibiotics & Pharmaceuticals, a public sector entity, would be permitted to manufacture and distribute Oxytocin. A health ministry advisory body has suggested that the Central government should not ban the sale of Oxytocin through retail chemists — which is proposed to come into force from …
Anti-larvae teams of the Health Department and the Jalandhar Municipal Corporation detected 15 dengue larvae cases on Thursday during its ongoing drive against vector-borne diseases. Out of 15 cases, 11 were found in desert coolers. Four teams, led by Raj Kumar, Gurwinder Singh, Harjit Kumar and Gurpal Singh carried out …
In a first, Australian researchers have successfully protected an entire city from dengue outbreaks by deploying captive-bred mosquitoes that are unable to spread the deadly virus. Mosquitoes bred to carry naturally-occurring Wolbachia bacteria, which prevents the transmission of viruses, were let loose over 66 square kilometres of Townsville, Queensland in …
Though efforts are being made to catch adulteration in food, many experts, especially traders feel that there is a need for a food testing laboratory in the holy city to ensure food safety. Many feel that in absence of a proper food testing lab, the food processing unit persons have …
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 …
HYDERABAD: Dengue is virtually on the prowl in Hyderabad and Telangana this year. If official statistics are any indication, dengue prevalence over Telangana has more than doubled so far this year (January 1 to July 20) as compared to the corresponding period last year. In the last week alone, 56 …
AGARTALA: Tripura health minister Sudip Roy Barman said on Tuesday that cases of malaria are decreasing in the state. While addressing an event on prevention of communicable diseases at Pragna Bhawan here this afternoon, the state health minister said two people have died of malaria and one person died of …
In an alarming new research study, researchers have stated that lung cancer mortality rates among women could increase by 43 per cent by 2030. The findings are according to an analysis of data from 52 countries. The global age-standardized breast cancer mortality rate is projected to decrease by 9 percent …
HYDERABAD: Coinfection of dengue with other similar ailments like malaria and chikungunya makes matters worse for patients and diagnosis difficult for doctors. With cases of coinfection on the rise, doctors say they are finding it difficult to diagnose the health issue. As all the three pathogens causing malaria, dengue and …
NEW DELHI: The capital’s three civic bodies have time and again complained about lack of money when it comes to executing key projects. However, it has emerged that north corporation has failed to utilise most of the funds sanctioned under the dengue control programme in the last one year or …
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 …
Australian researchers say for the first time an entire city has been protected from viral disease dengue. Captive-bred mosquitoes with a naturally occurring bacteria were released in the city of Townsville, where they mated with local mosquitoes. By spreading the bacteria Wolbachia, which hinders dengue transmission, the city has been …
A new study on lung cancer has thrown up disturbing trends on the emergence of the disease among non-smokers, younger people and females. The trends are stark considering lung cancer is typically a disease of the smokers, elderly and one with male preponderance. But the scenario seems to be changing …
The Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) is chartered by the Indian government to deliver insurance and healthcare benefits to over 20 million private and public-sector employees and therefore is recognized as India's largest healthcare. ESIC provides these services through its over 2 thousand facilities that include hospitals, dispensaries and branch …
The E protein in Zika virus is mutated and very different from the envelop protein of other flaviviruses such as dengue, West Nilevirus, yellow fever and Japanese encephalitis. National Brain Research Centre-led team of researchers has successfully identified the molecular and cellular mechanisms by which Zika virus causes microcephaly. Babies …
