World Health Assembly: Countries approve draft to improve organ transplantation availability, including cells, tissues
Despite the progress made over the past two decades, access to transplantation is not equitable among member countries, resolution notes
COVID-19 pandemic erased decade of gains in life expectancy, NCDs deaths on the rise: World Health Statistics Report
New Pandemic Agreement important not only to strengthen global health security, but to protect long-term investments in health and promote equity …
Youth health crisis: Alarming rise in unhealthy habits, poor diets in European teens, warns WHO
Fewer than two in five adolescents eat fruits or vegetables daily; teens from low-income families at higher risk
Health Day at upcoming UN climate conference — a first in COP history
Direct damage costs to health is estimated to be between $2-4 billion per year by 2030
COVID-19 pandemic may have led to 14% spike in number of underweight children in Bihar, Odisha: Study
The proportion of underweight children increased from 31 per cent to 45 per cent between June 2017 and July 2021, the study found
Latest Nipah Virus Outbreak reports 33% case fatality rate, all bat samples tested negative: WHO
While the bats did not test positive this time around, previously, evidence of the virus has been detected in dogs, cats, goats, sheep, and horses
Two deaths reported in Kerala due to the Nipah Virus, health minister Mandaviya confirms
The state government set up a control room in Kozhikode on September 12 to control the emergency, after a district-wide health alert was issued …
African nations endorse regional strategy to accelerate action against antimicrobial resistance
Strategy aims to accelerate implementation of national action plans on antimicrobial resistance, committed to by WHO Africa states eight years …
Health system in Africa functions at just 53% of expected performance: WHO
WHO highlighted Africa’s high burden of public health emergencies arising from epidemics, extreme weather events, humanitarian crises and …
Guillain-Barre: What is this neurological disorder — and how is it linked to COVID-19
Ninety-day national health emergency in Peru after 182 GBS cases reported since June 2023
India’s child wasting rate 18.7% as per latest UN inter-agency estimates
India is the largest country in southern Asia, where half of all children with wasting in the world live
UN: Progress in tackling maternal as well as newborn deaths stagnant since 2015
India tops the list of 10 countries which bear 60% of global maternal deaths, stillbirths & newborn deaths burden
DTE Coverage: World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2023
Antimicrobial resistance remains an ever-present danger for humanity
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Miracle of birth as a nightmare: India needs urgent policies to protect women’s obstetric rights
Obstetric violence is rampant, specially in rural India
Second anti-malaria vaccine for children approved by WHO
Global health body also recommends vaccines for dengue and meningitis
Common heart medication less effective in south Asian people – new research
Clopidogrel may not be effective for many British south Asians
Nutritional crisis: India has most ‘zero-food’ children at 6.7 million; third highest prevalance among 92 LMICs
Children aged 6-23 months going without milk, solid or semisolid food in 24-hour period are ‘zero-food’
Rising prevalence of eco-anxiety and climate anxiety is a growing concern
Eco-anxiety has both positive and negative effects on environmental education, ecological crisis and hindrances
WHO, US CDC are now tracking new COVID variant BA.2.86
Also called BA.X, lineage now under WHO’s variant under monitoring list
Climate change, conflicts & poor hygiene accelerate global cholera outbreaks
If the current trend persists, the supply of preventive vaccination will likely continue to be limited
World Meteorological Congress endorses 10-year plan to integrate and scale up climate, health services
Speakers at the 19th World Meteorological Congress also raised concerns over extreme heat and the need to strengthen early warning systems &…
Big companies, like Nestlé, are funding health research in South Africa — why this is wrong
Financial links between corporations and academic institutions are well known to lead to conflicts of interest
India tops global charts for childhood diabetes and deaths: Study
Almost 40% increase in cases to 2019 from 1990 globally; largest increase in cases recorded in children aged 10 to 14 years
Almost 5 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2022, finds UN report
A neonatal death happened every 14 seconds, one under five death every 6 seconds