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New Delhi: Italian chocolate and confectionery products company Ferrero’s Kinder chocolates have now been linked to salmonella poisoning in about 11 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. The company had earlier this month voluntarily withdrawn some of its Kinder chocolates from markets in the US and several European and Asian countries over a […]
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Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for continued innovation and increased investment in fighting malaria. On Monday, the WHO announced that over 1 million children have been vaccinated against the disease in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi, using the world’s first malaria vaccine, reports Xinhua news agency. If widely deployed, it estimates that the […]
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Geneva: Nearly 170 cases of Hepatitis of unknown origin among children have been reported by the World Health Organization (WHO), which says that there has been at least one death already. “As of 21 April 2022, at least 169 cases of acute hepatitis of unknown origin have been reported from 11 countries in the WHO […]
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Kinshasa: A new Ebola case has been confirmed in Congo’s northwest Equateur Province in the city of Mbandaka, Congo health authorities said Saturday, declaring an outbreak nearly four months after the last one ended in the central African nation. The one case was confirmed in a 31-year-old man who began experiencing symptoms on April 5 […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) working president K.T. Rama Rao has again hit out at Narendra Modi government for its discrimination against Telangana. The TRS leader slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for moving to Gujarat World Health Organisation (WHO) Global Centre for Traditional Medicine (GCTM), which was originally proposed to be set up at Hyderabad. […]
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One of the key lessons the coronavirus pandemic has taught the policymakers around the world pertains to the importance of reliable and accurate data. The absence of such an ecosystem leads to faulty policy framing with disastrous consequences. India is among the countries that do not have an authentic data ecosystem. The horrific second wave […]
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New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said that the Centre was hiding data after reports emerged that India is stalling data on Covid deaths. Rahul Gandhi in a tweet said, “Neither Modiji speak truth nor he allows anyone they have been saying falsely that no one died due to oxygen shortage,I have already […]
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New Delhi: The evidence doesn’t suggest the presence of COVID ‘XE’ mutant in India, government sources said on Wednesday and denied media reports that claimed the first case of the variant had been detected in the country. The government sources said that FastQ files of the sample, being said to be ‘XE’ variant, was analysed […]
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New Delhi: Even as reports emerge of a Mumbai-based Bollywood costume designer becoming India’s first person to test positive for the new Covid XE variant, here are a few things to know about the variant. The World Health Organisation (WHO) had last week issued a warning against a new mutant that may be more transmissible […]
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Hyderabad: Vaccine maker Biological E Limited (BE) announced that it has been selected as a recipient of mRNA technology from the World Health Organisation (WHO) technology transfer hub. After examining a number of proposals from India, the World Health Organisation’s Advisory Committee on Vaccine Product Development (ACPDV) selected Biological E Limited as a recipient of […]
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Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a warning against a new mutant ‘XE’ variant of Omicron, that may be more transmissible than any strain of Covid-19 seen before. This new variant is a recombinant strain, meaning it is a mutant hybrid of the two previous versions of the Omicron variant, BA.1 and BA.2, […]
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Hyderabad: Mercury (Hg) is a global pollutant that affects human and ecosystem health. Exposure to mercury threatens our health, with many often irreversible toxic effects. Developing fetuses and young children are most at risk. Mercury pollution also harms wildlife and ecosystems. Read here more about mercury pollution and how harmful it is to the environment. […]
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New Delhi : A day after the Government of India signed an agreement with World Health Organization for establishing the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar, Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the move saying it will contribute towards making a healthier planet and leveraging the country’s rich traditional practices for global good. […]
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Hyderabad: It was in March two years ago that the first Covid-19 positive infection in Telangana was reported and a few days later, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Covid-19 as a pandemic, capable of circulating across the globe, infecting large swathes of the population and claiming lives in its wake. Since March 2, 2020, […]
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Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based vaccine maker Biological E Limited (BE) has priced its Corbevax, which has got approval for administration to adolescents aged 12 to 14 years, at Rs 800 (excluding GST) per dose for the private market, and Rs 145 per dose for the government, making it the cheapest vaccine in India and also globally, the […]
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New York: Scientists at the University of Texas have developed a vaccine that could protect against the deadly Nipah virus in just three days. Nipah is a zoonotic virus (transmitted from animals to humans), which can be spread through contaminated food or directly between humans on exposure to secretions. The virus had three outbreaks in […]
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Geneva: Being able to obtain safe abortion is crucial for women and girls, said the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday. Only around half of all abortions take place under appropriate and safe conditions, while unsafe abortions cause around 39,000 deaths every year and result in millions more women hospitalised with complications. Most of these […]
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The latest global report on the state of air pollution has an ominous warning for India. Nearly 93% of the country’s population is living in areas where PM2.5 (Particulate Matter of 2.5 micrometre diameter) pollution levels are worse than even the lowest bracket of the World Health Organization’s new air quality standards. Contrary to the […]
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Hyderabad: In response to the Covid pandemic, while the scientific achievements have been absolutely outstanding such as vaccines in less than a year and a lot of progress on diagnostics, self-test kits and antivirals, technology, and the genomic surveillance, which has allowed to track the evolution of the virus, but global coordination and harmony was […]
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Geneva: Even as Covid cases are decreasing and several countries lifting restrictions, testing and surveillance of the virus is also on the decline, which is a major cause of concern, said a World Health Organisation official. WHO epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove said that monitoring the virus remains critical, the Washington Post reported. “We need to […]