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 …
HYDERABAD: In a major health scare, 700 new cases of dengue, including 23 from Hyderabad, were reported from across the state in just a fortnight. While thousands of patients have landed in hospitals, 46 cases of dengue were reported on Sunday, mostly from Khamman and Warangal. Also, six cases of …
The Centre’s long-pending plan to combine tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) control programmes may never happen. Last month, Union Health Secretary Preeti Sudan chaired a meeting attended by senior officials from the National Health Mission (NHM), National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), and Health Secretaries of Gujarat, Bihar, and …
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 5-14 …
In 2015, leaders of all countries committed to ‘eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere’ by 2030. In the past 25 years, the world has managed to halve the number of people living in extreme poverty. Yet despite this progress, at least 400 million people will still be living on …
Here’s a piece of information you may find hard to believe. A study undertaken by top medical experts from over 100 Indian institutions has revealed that age-adjusted incidence of most common cancers, except breast cancer, has remained static in India over the last 26 years from 1990 to 2016. While …
With 28 fresh cases having been reported this season, dengue has spread its tentacles in the Corporation Town Phagwara. When contacted, Senior Medical Officer Phagwara Davinder Singh has confirmed that a total of 12 dengue cases have been detected positive. He said though it was a total failure of the …
No swine flu cases were reported in Lakhimpur Kheri in the last two years, he said. The health department was put on alert on Wednesday after a 31-year-old man tested positive for swine flu, an official said. Acting on a report that Mohd Atif has tested positive for H1N1 virus, …
The burden of cardiovascular diseases is increasing in India, but a systematic understanding of its distribution and time trends across all the states is not readily available. In this report, we present a detailed analysis of how the patterns of cardiovascular diseases and major risk factors have changed across the …
The Government of India recently launched the ambitious National Health Protection Mission, also referred to as Ayushman Bharat, Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, or Modicare. This scheme has two main pillars: strengthening of universal comprehensive primary health care and a health insurance scheme to cover 500 million people in need …
India has 18% of the global population and an increasing burden of chronic respiratory diseases. However, a systematic understanding of the distribution of chronic respiratory diseases and their trends over time is not readily available for all of the states of India. Our aim was to report the trends in …
The burden of diabetes is increasing rapidly in India but a systematic understanding of its distribution and time trends is not available for every state of India. We present a comprehensive analysis of the time trends and heterogeneity in the distribution of diabetes burden across all states of India between …
Previous efforts to report estimates of cancer incidence and mortality in India and its different parts include the National Cancer Registry Programme Reports, Sample Registration System cause of death findings, Cancer Incidence in Five Continents Series, and GLOBOCAN. We present a comprehensive picture of the patterns and time trends of …
A systematic understanding of suicide mortality trends over time at the subnational level for India's 1·3 billion people, 18% of the global population, is not readily available. Thus, we aimed to report time trends of suicide deaths, and the heterogeneity in its distribution between the states of India from 1990 …
WHO’s flagship publication, the European health report 2018, welcomes an increase in life expectancy and reductions in premature mortality, but warns that smoking, alcohol, overweight and obesity and under-vaccination are hindering progress in some countries. The European health report, reveals that life expectancy in the WHO European Region continues to …
Maiduguri — Four more people have died of cholera in Borno State.This takes the number of deaths from cholera outbreak in the North East state to 18 from 14, as 300 new cases were recorded from September 5 to 7, 2018. National public information officer of the United Nations Office …
KOLKATA: Duttabad area under Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation has been badly hit by dengue this year and the civic authorities are taking all measures as possible to prevent the disease to further spread in the locality. Another 95 persons had attended the two medical camps in Duttabad on Sunday out of …
The race to contain the Ebola virus in Democratic Republic of Congo took a difficult turn Sunday as a team of health workers was attacked in Beni, adding to the security and access concerns for workers in the volatile North Kivu province. Officials say a team’s vehicle was attacked by …
BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - When Esperance Nzavaki heard she was cured of Ebola after three weeks of cutting-edge care at a medical centre in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, she raised her arms to the sky with joy and praised the Lord. Her recovery is testament to …
PANJIM: Goa government has assured to expeditiously look into the pending draft report on the Mental and Health Policy, released by Goa State Commission for Protection of Child Rights in February this year. Replying to a media question on the delay in finalising the policy, Women & Child Development Minister …
At least 25 fresh cases of Malaria and 30 cases of Dengue were reported by the various MCDs in Delhi last week, thus taking the total count of people affected by the diseases in 2018 to 195 and 137, respectively. The total number of cases of Chikungunya, however, reported till …
