June 30, 2022 6:08 pm
The biggest weekly rise in new Covid-19 cases was seen in the Middle East, where they increased by 47 per cent, according to the report released late Wednesday.
June 29, 2022 9:15 am
There are many diseases that can affect large numbers of people. But not all diseases are considered public health emergencies
June 10, 2022 10:56 am
WHO chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan felt that due to home-based self testing, numbers could also be underestimated.
June 06, 2022 9:15 am
Rajib Dasgupta, Shweta Sharma, Balram Bhargava write: The health system’s responsibility in providing equitable access to assistive technology, just as for essential medicines and vaccines, is increasingly being recognised.
May 28, 2022 6:17 pm
While monkeypox is not as transmissible or dangerous as Covid, these scientists say, there needs to be clearer guidance on how a person infected with monkeypox should isolate, more explicit advice on how to protect people who are at risk, and improved testing and contact tracing.
May 26, 2022 9:04 pm
WHO noted that countries which had a significant wave of disease caused by the omicron subvariant BA.2 appeared to be less affected by other subvariants like BA.4 and BA.5, which were responsible for the latest surge of disease in South Africa.
May 24, 2022 2:30 am
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said: “It is with a sense of dismay and concern that India notes WHO’s recent exercise on all-cause excess mortality where our country-specific authentic data published by the statutory authority has not been taken into account.”
May 22, 2022 9:52 pm
The World Health Organisation will open its annual health assembly, bringing together 194 member states in Geneva. Russia's attacks on healthcare facilities in Ukraine will be centre stage during the meeting.
May 21, 2022 10:05 am
The high achiever, who graduated in physics and chemistry as her core subjects from a top university in Kerala, also cleared the exam conducted by the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India while she pursued her passion for flying.
May 19, 2022 11:59 am
Shailaja Chandra writes: By using modelling, and not national data sources, it has ignored UN convention
June 22, 2020 6:12 pm
Over 1.25 lakh children in India below the age of five died in 2016 due to the impact of polluted air and almost one in five children who die from toxic air exposure across the world is from India, a new study by the World Health Organisation has sai