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 …
A cholera outbreak in Nigeria's northeast has killed nearly 100 people over the past two weeks and infected thousands more, the United Nations said. The number of recorded cases in Yobe and Borno states currently stands at 3 126, including 97 deaths, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian …
The first ever reported case of Zika Virus in the state has made the health department to come into action. Now, 500 houses in the capital Jaipur will be screened by health department team on a daily basis. Along with this, the government has cancelled all types of holidays or …
Coming down heavily on the opposition, Modi said that they always looked at the poor as vote banks, throwing freebies at them only to win the elections. He also stressed that PMJAY was yet another example of the slogan Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas. DESCRIBING IT as one of the biggest …
Ahmedabad: Over the last one and a half year doctors across major cities in Gujarat have been advising patients suffering from chikungunya and dengue to be careful of the after effects of the disease that affect the skin. Recently, doctors from VS hospital in Ahmedabad and PDU Medical College, Rajkot …
Rajasthan health department is on its toes after the first positive case of Zika virus infection in the state came to light on Saturday. On Sunday, a day after the case was informed by SMS Medical college, intensive survey and other preventive activities were started in the area where the …
JAIPUR: Swine flu has resurfaced in the state as 13 persons have died while 131 tested positive for the disease in the first 20 days of September. The spurt in swine flu cases has caught health department officials off guard. In 2017, September was the worst affected month due to …
The death toll of children from diphtheria at municipal hospitals in north-west Delhi has risen to 18, even as the area's mayor has set up a panel to look into it, officials said on Sunday. Twelve deaths were reported at the Maharishi Valmiki Infectious Diseases Hospital on September 20 and …
A new action plan outlining measures to prevent and treat tuberculosis (TB) in children and adolescents was launched by global tuberculosis (TB) leadership in advance of the United Nations General Assembly High-Level meeting on TB. Building on the first-ever Roadmap for Childhood TB: Toward Zero Deaths first issued in 2013, …
The third UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) on Sept 27, 2018, will review national and global progress towards the prevention and control of NCDs, and provide an opportunity to renew, reinforce, and enhance commitments to reduce their burden. NCD Countdown 2030 is an independent collaboration to inform policies …
More than 3 million people died as a result of harmful use of alcohol in 2016, according a report released by the World Health Organization (WHO). This represents 1 in 20 deaths. More than three quarters of these deaths were among men. Overall, the harmful use of alcohol causes more …
About 8,02,000 infant deaths were reported in India in 2017, the lowest in five years, according to the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNIGME). A new UNIGME report said 6,05,000 neonatal deaths were reported in India in 2017, while the number of deaths among children aged 514 …
There has been a sudden spike in mosquito-borne diseases in the city. Of the total 243 dengue cases reported this season, 106 were reported during the last one week. According to the report issued by the corporations, 106 new cases of dengue, 30 cases of malaria and 13 cases of …
The number of people affected by cardiac diseases has doubled Cardiac ailments killed more Indians in 2016 (28%) than any other non-communicable disease, said a new study published in the September 2018 issue of health journal The Lancet. These are double the numbers reported in 1990 when heart disease caused …
Nashik: On Monday, the death toll from swine flu in Nashik district reached 19 this year with the death of 45-year-old Rajendra Page from Ambegaon, Dindori. Page was admitted to the Nashik civil hospital on Sunday at around 5 pm and passed away on Monday afternoon. Chief Executive Officer of …
AHMEDABAD: Swine flu and dengue seems to be rearing up again in the city. There have been there have been 76 cases of dengue and 51 of swine in the last week. There have also been six deaths from swine flu in the city in the same period. According figures …
India accounted for 27 per cent of the 10 million people who developed tuberculosis in 2017, the highest among the top 30 high TB burden countries in the world, according to this WHO report The 2018 edition of the Global Tuberculosis Report, provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the …
This book presents key activities, promising practices, and lessons learned to date from the World Bank’s Tuberculosis (TB) in the Mining Sector Initiative--an innovative multisectoral, multicountry, public-private regional initiative. It examines how a collaborative platform was established to cover 10 southern African countries, and it details the processes through which …
A senior official of Telangana AIDS Control Society said, delay in funds is affecting the prevention and control programmes. Hyderabad: A total of 9,324 new cases of HIV infections were reported in Telangana in 2017, constituting 11 per cent of the total cases in the country, according to a report …
Given the rising cases of swine flu, the district health department has started screening patients at government hospitals. Over the past 15 days, over 28,000 patients have been screened for swine flu. Senior officials said there were 16 deaths from swine flu this year in the district. A workshop was …
Guwahati: New HIV infections have been reported in Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram in 2017, in spite of an overall decline in HIV infection in the country, according to a National AIDS Control Organisation (Naco) report. The three states have reported increasing new HIV infections, according to the recently …
