New Delhi: The COVID-19 pandemic has upset the trend of steady rise in life expectancy at birth and healthy life expectancy at birth (HALE) globally, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) …
New Delhi: Australia has confirmed its first human case of avian influenza A, saying the patient — a child — was infected in India in March. This is the first …
World Health Day is observed on April 7 to raise awareness about pressing health issues, promote healthy lifestyles, and advocate for universal access to quality healthcare. The theme of World …
New Delhi: The WHO announced the second edition of its Week of Quality training program. The initiative builds on the success of the first week, which focused on vaccines, medicines, …
Whether you’re a gardener growing food for your household, a small scale farmer or a commercial producer, soil matters. You cannot really tell the difference between healthy and unhealthy soil …
Malaria could be wiped out globally within a decade, a top vaccinologist behind Oxford University’s game-changing jab has declared. The mosquito-borne disease claims more than 600,000 lives annually and progress …
Karnataka government has banned hookah citing ‘public health and safety’. StateHealth Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao took to social media to inform the public about the decision. This decisive action is …
NEW YORK: US health officials say 93 Americans have died after cosmetic surgery in the Dominican Republic since 2009, with many of the recent deaths involving a procedure known as …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced there was a 30-fold increase in measle cases in Europe in 2023. Health officials are now warning that “urgent measures” are needed to …
At the annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, world leaders gathered to discuss Disease X, a theoretical virus that could be 20 times more deadly than Covid-19. While such a virus …