Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Growing political attention to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) offers a rare opportunity for achieving meaningful action. Many governments have developed national AMR action plans, but most have not yet implemented policy interventions to reduce antimicrobial overuse. A systematic evidence map can support governments in making evidence-informed decisions about implementing programs to …
Nipah Virus: The disease spreads through fruit bats or ‘flying foxes,’ of the genus Pteropus, who are natural reservoir hosts of the Nipah and Hendra viruses. Healthcare officials in Kerala are on their toes after a male student in Ernakulam district was admitted to a private hospital last week with …
The health ministry, headed by KK Shailaja which worked overtime during the crisis last year, activated safety protocols at the hospital in Ernakulam and has sent a team of top medical officials to the district. Having learned valuable lessons during the outbreak of the Nipah virus in Kozhikode and Malappuram …
Screening recommended for recovered persons regardless of age or smoking habit Many patients who have successfully completed treatment for tuberculosis may continue to display poor lung function and face the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a study in India has indicated. Health researchers who detected a surprisingly high …
A status check by the TB control unit of the PMC showed that out of 710 private hospitals/ nursing homes, 24 were reporting TB cases while six laboratories out of 406 were sending the information. The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) health department has floated a proposal to set up an …
An Expert Explains: In biggest bout, knockout This time, BIMSTEC leaders are invited to Modi’s swearing-in Community pharmacists can help in detecting undiagnosed cases of tuberculosis (TB), as they are the first point of contact for many sick patients, a new study in Patna has found. The study found that …
The trial is going to use the Janssen Ebola Vaccine that was developed by Janssen Pharmaceutical Company. Phase I and II human trials of the vaccine have already been carried out by the Oxford Vaccine Group in the United Kingdom. The study will be carried out at Mbarara University of …
Health officials have warned that the second-deadliest outbreak of Ebola may spiral out of control unless attacks by armed groups on medical facilities and workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) stop. Speaking to reporters in Geneva on Wednesday, Oly Ilunga Kalenga, the DRC's health minister, said the …
The grave, of an unknown person, is now being called a “dargah” by a section of residents at the Muslim-majority Sooppikkada village in Kozhikode district. They claim the virus targeted the village because the grave was “neglected over the years”. A year after Kerala waged a successful battle to contain …
Most common symptoms are jaundice, fever, malaise. Hyderabad: Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infections have gone up by almost 300 per cent in recent years, according to a report published online on May 9, 2019 in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. HAV infection is caused by ingesting water or food contaminated …
The state’s health department said that there had been a spurt in H1N1 cases due to climatic changes. Mumbai: Three hundred cases of swine flu were detected in Mumbai, whereas over 1,482 cases of H1N1 and 135 deaths were reported in Maharashtra from January 1 till date this year. The …
Daily cases in State take a nosedive With the mercury shooting up, number of swine flu cases reported in the State per day has seen a drastic drop. While around 20 to 25 cases were reported on a daily basis during winter months, now it has come down to just …
MUMBAI: In a span of 10 days between April 20 and 30, H1N1 toll in the state rose by 25. The latest casualties have pushed the death tally in Maharashtra to 135 so far this year. Mumbai so far has accounted for two of these deaths. As many as 1,441 …
Pune: In just 10 days, between April 20 and 30, the swine flu death toll in the state went up by 25. With these latest casualties, the collective swine flu death tally in Maharashtra has reached 135 so far this year. As many as 1,441 people have tested positive for …
LESOTHO is making significant strides towards controlling the HIV epidemic and is on course to meet the global 90-90-90 targets by 2020. The first 90 target seeks to ensure that by the year 2020, 90 percent of all people living with HIV know their status. The second target seeks to …
13 people diagnosed with infection in the past one week There seems to be no let-up in H1N1 (influenza) cases in Kozhikode district as more people are found to be seeking treatment for the disease in the past one week. The Health Department had issued an alert on April 17 …
A 30-year-old woman from Agripada and a 65-year-old diabetic woman from Mazgaon died in the month of March due to swine flu, as per the records presented by the death audit committee meeting held in April. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) public health department on Tuesday confirmed two swine flu …
In Maharashtra, at least 8.86 lakh people have been screened for H1N1 virus from January to April 21. Of them, 15,524 patients suspected to have fever were administered the Oseltamivir drug as a precaution. By Express News Service |Mumbai | Published: April 24, 2019 12:44:54 am Mumbai recorded its first …
Metropolitan cities such as Mumbai have the maximum share of drug-resistant TB cases, according to the Central TB Division’s India TB Report 2018. TB is today the world’s foremost infectious disease killer, with the WHO recognising it as a “global health crises”. As per the Global TB report 2017, the …
People who recently had surgery, live in nursing homes, or who have breathing tubes, feeding tubes or central venous catheters are especially at a higher risk, said Dr KK Aggarwal, former IMA president. The CDC has added drug-resistant C. auris to a list of germs which are considered “urgent threats”, …
