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 …
12 cases reported this month The Health Department has issued an alert against H1N1 (Influenza) in Kozhikode district in view of the high incidence of the viral infection in the past three-and-a-half months. District Medical Officer V. Jayasree said in a release on Wednesday that 12 cases had been reported …
BMC’s health workers visited households across 24 wards The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)'s public health department which conducted a house-to-house active case finding (ACF) campaign for tuberculosis (TB) control thrice in 2018, has found only 77 new cases tested positive in the city. The group of BMC's health worker visited …
The State TB Cell officials are mulling signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the postal department to transport sputum samples from Primary Health Centres to Cartridge Based Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing (CBNAAT) laboratories in district headquarters. The move aims to reduce the time taken to test samples for Multi-Drug …
Experts will convene for an emergency meeting on Friday to determine whether the recent escalation of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo should be declared a global health crisis. More than eight months into the epidemic, which has killed 751 people, agencies warned the disease is still …
The number of cases treated too has increased to 1,236 patients, who are being treated across the state. As per the Maharashtra public health department data, around 94 patients have died in the state due to swine flu till Wednesday. According to the state's health department officials, there has been …
The recent escalation in the number of Ebola virus disease (EVD) cases continues in the North Kivu provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This past week saw 65 new confirmed cases reported in the last seven days, predominantly from the areas ofKatwa, Mandima, Butembo, and Vuhovi. During the …
Mumbai: In good news for tuberculosis patients, drug major Johnson & Johnson is providing India with a fresh grant of 10,000 courses of the life-saving drug bedaquiline, free of cost this year. The development, ending months of speculation on the availability of the drug, is significant as it is expected …
Social network data of tuberculosis (TB) patients could explain the source and pattern of disease spread. A review of the published literature highlights that social network data could identify hidden social or epidemiological links among TB patients and improved TB case finding. Index and betweenness position of patients explained TB …
PUNE: Extended winter, wide fluctuation in day and night temperatures and the declining immunity among people have sent swine flu cases soaring in the city as well as the state this year so far. Between January 1 and April 8 this year, as many as 1,195 people tested positive for …
U.S. measles cases are continuing to jump, and most of the reported illnesses are in children. Health officials say 465 measles cases have been reported this year, as of last week. That's up from 387 the week before. The numbers are preliminary. The 2019 tally is already the most since …
What if a mobile phone could prevent a health epidemic? It may sound like science fiction, but the World Health Organization's (WHO) Polio Geographic Information System (GIS) Technology is doing just that in 43 countries in Africa. The idea is simple: Health workers visit remote villages to check if local …
As of Saturday, the number of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo had risen to 1,130 cases – a troubling jump of more than 100 in just 10 days – with 1,064 of them confirmed and 66 probable. The Congolese Ministry of Health reported 642 deaths, on the …
JAIPUR: Swine flu continues to claim lives in the state, despite the rise in temperatures. Two more persons died of swine flu in the first week April. According to health department report, one death was reported from Bhilwara and one from Banswara. The death toll has increased to 192 this …
Gurgaon: The total number of swine flu cases recorded in the city has gone up to 61 in the past five months. This is the highest number of confirmed cases in the city since 2011. Gurgaon has also reported six deaths due to H1N1 virus this winter. Out of 90 …
Swine flu cases have risen in most of the North Indian since the month of January of 2019 as compared to the total number of cases in these states in the year 2018, as per the latest Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), a report released by the National Centre for …
There is a need to focus on 100% adherence particularly in antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV treatment said an expert at a panel discussion on adherence to treatment protocols on Wednesday. Dr Rajesh Gopal, additional project director, Gujarat State Aids Control Society (GSACS) said that adherence is the single most …
Swine flu scare has gripped the financial capital. The city is seeing an alarming rise in the number of swine flu cases, with at least 121 people tested positive for the infectious seasonal influenza so far this year. Last year, the city had recorded only cases of 25 swine flu. …
World health statistics 2019 summarizes recent trends and levels in life expectancy and causes of death, and reports on the health and health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and associated targets. Where possible, the 2019 report disaggregates data by WHO region, World Bank income group, and sex; it also discusses differences …
The World Health Organization says insecurity and community mistrust in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s conflict-ridden North Kivu Province are major impediments to international health efforts to bring the deadly Ebola outbreak under control. Latest official figures put the number of Ebola cases in the Eastern DRC at 1,089, including …
Scientists working on developing vaccines against Ebola have found they can "harvest" antibodies from volunteers vaccinated in research trials and use them to make treatments for the deadly viral infection. In a study published Tuesday in the journal Cell Reports, the scientists said the approach could be used for Ebola …
