The number of deaths among children under the age of five has reduced by half since 1990. Yet over 5 million children are still dying every year from mostly preventable causes. Pneumonia is responsible for nearly 20% of these deaths and is the leading infectious cause of death in this …
About 33 per cent children who have still not been immunized in the state under its public healthcare programme are set to benefit by the vaccine’s launch. The Maharashtra government, Sunday, launched the ambitious pentavalent vaccination programme across the state to provide infants with five vaccinations in one dose for …
Is your cough and cold persisting for more than two weeks? Blame the air. Doctors say the high pollution in Delhi is aggravating inflammation of the upper and the lower respiratory tracts, making viral infections and related disorders persistent and difficult to treat. "Cough and respiratory distress due to viral …
The United Na tions has issued a dire warning to India over its abysmally high infant and maternal mortality rate. UNICEF has projected that if current trends of un der-five mortality rate con tinue, by 2030 just five coun tries will account for more than half of all under-five deaths …
It looks neither malaria nor dengue but pneumonia and Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) are proving to be Odisha’s biggest emergency health threat. Moreover, the State looks like to be under viral seize as viral-led diseases accounted for the maximum death burden in State last year. Such disconcerting trends have come …
United Nations agencies, UNICEF, WHO as well as the Washington-based World Bank have said Mozambique is part of a group of ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa that have achieved half of the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for reducing child mortality.In a joint report sent to APA on …
KOLKATA: Thanks to indiscriminate use of antibiotics, infection control may become a tough task in the city. In another couple of years, doctors may have no answer to diseases like pneumonia, urinary tract infection, skin infection and blood septicemia. The emergence of new bacteria and fungi, too, are making treatment …
In developing countries, mortality in children with very severe pneumonia is high, even with the provision of appropriate antibiotics, standard oxygen therapy, and other supportive care. We assessed whether oxygen therapy delivered by bubble continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) improved outcomes compared with standard low-flow and high-flow oxygen therapies.
Grimy city buildings and statues aren’t just unsightly, they also contribute to smog. A new study says sunlight triggers the release of smog-forming nitrogen oxide compounds from dirt coating buildings and statues in urban areas. And this process may be a surprisingly significant contributor to air pollution in cities. The …
PUNE: The air quality is usually good in monsoon because air pollutants get washed away in the rain water. But, below average rainfall this year in July has resulted in a surge in pollution levels across the city. According to records of the system of air quality forecasting and research …
With pneumonia emerging as one of the leading causes of mortality amo-ng children under five years of age, the government is considering introduction of Pneumococcal vaccine in the Universal Immunisation Program-me (UIP). Taking its first foot forward, the government has asked the national technical advisory group on immunisation (NTAGI) to …
Legionnaires’ disease has killed four people and sickened at least 71 people in the Bronx, New York. Above, magazine cover story titles related to previous outbreaks of Legionnaires disease. CDC Legionnaires’ disease has killed four people and sickened at least 71 people in the Bronx, New York as of Monday. …
First reported in September, 2012, human infections with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) can result in severe respiratory disease, characterised by life-threatening pneumonia and renal failure. Countries with primary infections of MERS-CoV are located in the Middle East, but cases have been occasionally exported in other countries (fi gure). …
GENEVA — United Nations member states agreed Monday to a plan to tackle resistance to antibiotic drugs, spurred by warnings of a catastrophe for public health and heavy economic losses if they did not act. The plan is due to be adopted Tuesday at a plenary session of the World …
LATEST statistics from the World Health Organisation (WHO) show that men and women are living longer by six years even as child deaths have almost halved – falling from an estimated 90 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 – to 46 deaths per 1000 live births in 2013. According …
India has met only four of ten health targets under the Millenium Development Goals (MDG), and has made next to no progress on another four, according to new data from the World Health Organisation. The deadline for achieving MDGs runs out this year.The WHO’s annual World Health Statistics for 2015 …
Measles, while not always fatal, is a potentially serious and highly communicable respiratory disease caused by a virus and spreads in the air.(Reuters) The measles virus can cause serious disease in children by temporarily suppressing their immune systems for as long as three years and not just a few months, …
Cases of pneumonia among children in Kilifi have reduced sharply after the introduction of a vaccine in 2011, latest results show. The pneumococcal vaccine was introduced in Kenya in 2011 mostly to prevent pneumonia and meningitis. Ministry of Health and KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme have been monitoring reported cases at …
E-cigarettes have for the first time been found to be harmful to the lungs in the same way as traditional nicotine cigarettes. Scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health confirmed that e-cigarette vapours contain the same potentially dangerous chemicals. Research has also found that e-cigarette vapours contain free …
A leading microbiologist has warned of the increasing threat that killer fungi poses to humans and the environment. New figures show that fungal diseases cause hundreds of thousands of deaths annually, following severe respiratory illness and infections of the blood stream. And now an expert has warned that fungi kill …
The Centre will soon launch an action plan against diarrhoea and pneumonia in four States, including Rajasthan. The aim is to end preventable child deaths from these two by 2025. As high as 36 per cent of all child deaths, below the age of 5, in India are caused by …
