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 …
No fewer than 23 cases of drug resistance Tuberculosis (TB) has been recorded in Adamawa from January to date. The state Programme Manager for TB and Leprosy Control, Dr Boniface Gundiri, disclosed this known on Monday in Yola at a ceremony to commemorate World TB Day. Gundiri said 60 drug …
Thane: In order to meet the 100 per cent target of MR vaccination, the civic health authorities have decided to visit each and every household so that not a single child is missed from being vaccinated for measles and rubella vaccination shots. The health department stated that this move was …
Meerut: As the nation observed World Tuberculosis Day on Sunday, data collated by the district tuberculosis department, which was made public on Monday, showed that the number of TB cases increased by 3,457 cases in Meerut from 2017 to 2018. Meanwhile, an increase of 2,386 cases was also reported in …
Jaipur: A declining trend in swine flu cases has been reported from Sawai Man Singh (SMS) hospital. A meeting of the SMS hospital administration wing along with head of the departments of different specialties was held on Monday discussing the trend and preparedness of SMS hospital to fight against the …
Healthcare experts from India and the UK gathered for a first-of-its-kind conference in Birmingham to explore opportunities emerging after the Indian government's Ayushman Bharat initiative. The conference, which was organised at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham by the Indian High Commission in the UK, Consulate General of India in …
While no fresh cases of malaria have been reported, three cases of chikungunya-- two in February and one in March-- have been recorded this year. At least five dengue cases, including three in March, have been detected in Delhi so far this year, even though the vector-borne disease is usually …
Congo’s Ebola epidemic has now exceeded 1,000 cases, the Health Ministry said on Monday, with a death toll of 629 in the world’s second worst ever outbreak. Health workers have been better prepared than ever for this latest epidemic of the hemorrhagic fever, which causes severe vomiting, diarrhoea and bleeding, …
At least 14 people died and more than 32,000 were infected in a major measles outbreak in Ukraine in the past three months, the country's Health Ministry said on Monday. A total of 32,939 people, including 18,109 children, were infected from December 28, 2018 to March 12, 2019 by measles …
THANE: Thane city falls under the top 10 cities in the state that provides tuberculosis (TB) care according to a quarterly report of the government’s Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP). Officials from the Thane civic health department said that the rankings are done on the basis of five criteria …
Pune: The H1N1 virus is wreaking havoc across the state. Maharashtra has recorded 928 swine flu cases and 73 deaths between January 1 and March 21 this year. Nagpur has recorded the highest number of cases, at 246, followed by Mumbai (172), Nashik (168) and Pune (92). During the same …
Efforts are on to maximise notification of private cases, say officials The notification of tuberculosis is slowly improving in the State but Tamil Nadu has a long road ahead. Efforts are on to maximise private case notification in Tamil Nadu, officials say. According to State TB officials, the Central TB …
BHOPAL: The deadly strain of H1N1 has claimed 90 lives in the state in the first three months of the year. On an average, 17 people have been diagnosed for H1N1 viral influenza in the state daily. On Saturday, the health department reported four new cases of H1N1 infection in …
Union Health Secretary Preeti Sudan Sunday stressed on the partnerships with all stakeholders including doctors, paramedics, frontline health workers and community partners for achieving the goal of eliminating tuberculosis from the country by 2025. The systems of care for TB patients should be patient centric, and sympathetic to their wellbeing, …
One of the first multicenter randomized trials was the British Medical Research Council (MRC) streptomycin trial. From the first meeting of the special committee to “plan trials of streptomycin in tuberculosis” in September, 1946, the primary trial results from 107 participants followed for 12 months were published in the British …
Weekly health bulletin by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) reported the rise in the waterborne diseases within city limits. In the first two weeks of the March 2019, the city has reported 331 cases. Summer season is appraoching, and yet waterborne diseases are on the rise in the city. So …
MUMBAI: Bombay high court has, in an interim order, stayed the Maharashtra government's two-and-half-year-old directive capping the price of dengue tests at 600. A division bench of justices Abhay Oka and M S Sanklecha admitted the petition filed by Association Of Practising Pathologists and held that while the state had …
KOLKATA: The muted symptoms of pancreatic cancer — that claimed the life of Goa CM Manohar Parrikar on Sunday — make it one of the deadliest forms of cancer. Though it is relatively rare in India (less than 1% of all cancer patients suffer from it), incidence of pancreatic cancer …
No fewer than 1.13 million children are expected to be vaccinated against polio in the ongoing four-day house-to-house immunisation exercise in Adamawa. The Information Officer of the State Ministry of Health, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, made this known on Monday in Yola. Abubakar said the four-day exercise under Supplementary Immunisation Plus …
The chances of dying from cancer for men has dropped about six percent from 139 deaths per 100,000 males in 2014 to 131 this year, according to a paper in the Annals of Oncology medical journal. The death rate from cancer has been falling for half a decade in the …
JAIPUR: Even in winters, dengue has taken toll on the health of the people in the city. So far this year, 93 persons have already been tested positive for dengue in the city. Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease and the cases of the disease are commonly reported during rains and …
