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 …
The National Tuberculosis Centre is preparing to conduct a tuberculosis prevalence survey across the country. According to NTC Director Dr Rajendra Pant, the survey will be conducted among 55,500 randomly selected people, above the age of 15, from across the country. An NTC team will conduct interviews and chest x-rays …
Cholera reappeared in Haiti in October, 2010 after decades of absence. Cases were first detected in Artibonite region and in the ensuing months the disease spread to every department in the country. The rate of increase in the number of cases at the start of epidemics provides valuable information about …
MYAGDI: More than one hundred locals have taken ill due to the chickenpox outbreak in Hidi village, Myagdi, sources said today. Over the last three days the epidemic has gripped the entire village, affecting almost every household in the region, locals said. Local Siddha Shanti Secondary School announced three days …
The Awami National Party-led provincial government has completed development projects worth Rs229 million in livestock and dairy development sector during last four and a half years in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Provincial Minister for Livestock and Cooperatives Hidayatullah Khan claimed this while briefing media persons about performance of his department. He said …
The world is more at risk as persistent economic weakness saps our ability to tackle environmental challenges warns this new report by World Economic Forum (WEF) with analyses of 50 global risks in terms of impact, likelihood and interconnections. This report analyses 50 global risks in terms of impact, likelihood …
Non-communicable diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart disease killed two out of three people in 2010 — a larger share than in 1990, when they were responsible for every second death in the world. Of the 52.8 million people who died worldwide in 2010, ischaemic heart disease and stroke accounted …
Months after the Union Health Ministry turned down demands of a section of the medical community to devise ways to fight Totally Drug Resistant (TDR) Tuberculosis, an article in the latest issue of Indian Journal of Medical Research (IJMR) has underscored the need for such a move, at least for …
Chennai Declaration lists out ways to tackle the global challenge India needs to take urgent initiatives to formulate an effective national policy to control the rising trend of antimicrobial resistance, including a ban on over-the-counter sale of antibiotics, and changes in the medical education curriculum to include training on antibiotic …
England’s West Country is a bucolic landscape of winding country lanes and gently rolling pastures. But as autumn darkens into winter, a war, complete with armed marksmen and camouflaged saboteurs, is about to erupt from the hedgerows. Both sides claim science as their ally. At issue is the badger (Meles …
Fungal meningitis tied to a contaminated steroid has affected 205 people in a worsening outbreak of the infection that has killed 15 people in the US, officials have said. Fourteen states have been affected by the outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, on Sunday. On Saturday, it …
This new WHO report provides scientific information on the connections between weather and climate and major health challenges. These range from diseases of poverty to emergencies arising from extreme weather events and disease outbreaks. The Atlas of health and climate is a product of this unique collaboration between the meteorological …
One person in Southwest China's Sichuan province died of plague on Sept 7, the Ministry of Health said Monday. The case was reported in Cunge township, Litang county, Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture, the ministry said on its website, quoting a report from Sichuan's provincial health department. A herder surnamed Da …
A mysterious new disease has left a number of people in Asia and some in the US with AIDS-like symptoms even though they are not infected with HIV. The disease affects the immune system of the patient and damages it, leaving him incapable to repulse germs as healthy people can. …
WHO and partners hope that they can fi nally rid the world of polio. But insurgency, Taliban-initiated boycotts, and a US$1 billion funding defi cit will not make it an easy task. Dara Mohammadi reports.
At the turn of the century and the millennium, Science carried a series of essays titled Pathways of Discovery. An extremely readable and characteristically eloquent essay on Infectious History still holds a place, albeit indistinct and receding, in my memory. The author, Joshua Lederberg, was one of the most influential …
There is increasing concern regarding the role of climate change in driving bacterial waterborne infectious diseases. Here we illustrate associations between environmental changes observed in the Baltic area and the recent emergence of Vibrio infections and also forecast future scenarios of the risk of infections in correspondence with predicted warming …
Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) are recognized as having significant social, economic and ecological costs, threatening human health, food security, wildlife conservation and biodiversity. We review the processes underlying the emergence of infectious disease, focusing on the similarities and differences between conceptual models of disease emergence and biological invasions in general. …
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government said Monday 78 patients and staff at an elderly care center had contracted tuberculosis (TB), including three people who died, a report said. In February, two in-patients at the dementia care wing of Tokyo Oume Hospital were diagnosed with TB, Jiji Press said. A follow-up study …
A global study mapping human diseases that come from animals like tuberculosis, AIDS, bird flu or Rift Valley fever has found that just 13 such diseases are responsible for 2.4 billion cases of human illness and 2.2 million deaths a year. The vast majority of infections and deaths from so-called …
