India recorded 3.02 million preterm births in 2020 — the highest worldwide — accounting for over 20 per cent of all preterm births globally, according to a study published in the The Lancet journal. The research...
The next pandemic could take 50 million lives said Dame Kate Bingham, who chaired the UK’s Vaccine Taskforce saying that it might already be on its way and that Covid-19 was not that lethal. The new pandemic has been...
The global health body World Health Organization (WHO) in a recently released report has highlighted that hypertension affects 1 in 3 adults worldwide. This common, deadly condition leads to stroke, heart attack, heart...
The global health body World Health Organization has said that some indicators have not changed over time, such as 65% of women accessing post-natal contact with a health care provider within two days after birth and less...
The G20 New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration has called for strengthening global health and implementing one health approach along with improving the access to medical countermeasures and facilitating more supplies in...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the outcome document of first WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit 2023 in the form of ‘Gujarat Declaration.’ The declaration reaffirmed global commitments...
The capital city has emerged as the world’s most polluted megacity in the world in a new study which has also found that its residents are on track to lose 11.9 years of life if the current levels of pollution persist....
The World Health Organization on Tuesday called for intensified efforts towards childhood immunization with a focus on reaching the 2.3 million unvaccinated and 650,000 partially vaccinated children. The WHO and UNICEF...
Ahead of the G-20 event of Global Food Regulators Summit, Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday unveiled the logo of the summit. The summit is being held in the capital city for the first time by Food...
The Indian Council of Medical Research held a two-day Innovative TB Health Technologies Workshop to encourage the innovative health technologies for TB to be assessed and enable their adoption in the End TB program. The...
