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As millions suffer from long Covid across the globe, including in India, a unique rehabilitation programme led by an Indian-origin scientist has helped some of such patients reduce their symptoms and increase activity levels with "impressive" results.
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The surge in the number of Covid-related hospitalisations in the United States in the last few weeks comes as a warning signal to other countries as well.
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Covid-19 seems to be back with a vengeance in China with nearly 40,000 cases being reported daily across the country.
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District health officers have been alerted to take-up door-to-door visits to vulnerable children with symptoms of measles
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States told to administer vaccine in 'vulnerable areas' for children between 9 months and 5 years
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While there is a growing realisation among stakeholders on the need to have vaccine program for adults, MoHFW is yet to frame national adult immunisation guidelines.
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"There is an urgent need for governments, industry, and civil society to prioritise global hearing loss prevention by promoting safe listening practices," the researchers said.
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Acknowledging, normalising and addressing mental health amid the information turmoil is the only way forward.
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New Delhi: The WHO on Monday called for increased access to quality diabetes education for healthcare workers, the public and people living with diabetes as part of efforts to ensure better access to quality and affordable care for the disease. Globally, around 422 million people have diabetes, and 1.5 million deaths are directly attributed to […]
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The World Health Organization on Wednesday issued an alert for four "contaminated" India-made medicines, chiefly for paediatric use, identified in the west African nation
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On the CBS '60 Minutes' TV show on Sunday, Biden said: "The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with Covid. We're still doing a lot of work on it. It's, but the pandemic is over".
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Hyderabad: World Health Network’s Dr. Sunil Raina talks about how India can improve its policies to more effectively fight monkeypox. Along with the recent surge in the number of coronavirus cases across the country, India has also reported 9 cases of monkeypox so far. The first case was detected in Kerala on July 14th, and […]
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Hyderabad: Amid the rise in COVID-19 case in past few weeks across the globe, WHO chief Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus warned against dropping guards and said that this does not mean that ‘we pretend it’s not there’. Taking to twitter on Thursday, Tedros shared a video asking people to do everything that requires to protect others. […]
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New Delhi: People infected with monkeypox must isolate their pets, said an official from the World Health Organization, after a report showed the first-ever case of human-to-dog transmission of the virus in France. In a Lancet report earlier this week, French researchers documented the first case of a dog with confirmed monkeypox infection that might […]
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Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced new names for variants of the monkeypox virus that are currently in circulation. This is to avoid causing any cultural or social offence, the WHO said in a statement. A group of global experts convened by the WHO decided on the new names, Xinhua news agency reported. Experts […]
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Johannesburg: The average life expectancy in the African region has increased on average by 10 years per person between 2000 and 2019, the WHO has said, describing the rise greater than in any other region of the world during the same period. But the World Health Organisation also cautioned that the advent of the COVID-19 […]
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London: British health authorities said Friday the monkeypox outbreak across the country may be peaking and that the epidemic’s growth rate has slowed. The U.K.’s Health Security Agency said in a statement there were “early signs that the outbreak is plateauing,” with 2,859 cases detected since May. No deaths have been reported. Last month, authorities […]
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Geneva/London: Amid four deaths due to monkeypox outside Africa, including India, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the infectious disease is likely to lead to more fatalities. “With the continued spread of monkeypox, we will expect to see more deaths,” Catherine Smallwood, Senior Emergency Officer at WHO Europe, said in a statement. Smallwood […]
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New Delhi: The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated in its public health advisory for gays and men who have sex with men that the risk of monkeypox is not just limited to them after WHO’s earlier statement triggered a hoax that might have demonised the LGBTQ community. WHO in its earlier statement had said […]
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Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Health Minister Veena George on Sunday said the government will examine the reasons behind the death of a 22-year-old young man who recently returned from UAE and allegedly died due to monkeypox a day ago. With the swab results of the deceased patient yet to be reported, the Health Minister said that the […]