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January 30 now ‘World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day’: WHA

Delegates at the 74th World Health Assembly unanimously adopted a proposal by the UAE to declare January 30 as ‘World NTD Day’

Rise in hypertension cases in Delhi highest in the age group of 35 to 44 years

The prevalence of hypertension, an important risk factor for Non-Communicable Diseases, has increased rapidly in the National Capital Region over …

Human factor in swine flu

Still reeling

New SARS cases in China

The ill effects

Warming climate spawns disease epidemics

ECO COURT

Quake sickness

Mote monitor

A new instrument to detect tiny polluting particles that vehicles emit

MARINE MALADY

Buffalo blight

Drug overkill

Irrational drug prescriptions are giving rise to drug-resistant bacteria

Quest for clean air

Bad for wildlife, bad for people

What is Alaskapox? A microbiologist explains the recently discovered virus that just claimed its first fatality

Alaskapox — a virus in the same family as smallpox, cowpox and mpox — claimed its first fatality in January 2024

Frontier guards

Invaded and ravaged by germs and pathogens every moment of its existence, the human body has developed its own lines of defence. Among the …

Neglected Tropical Diseases Day: Poorest countries continue to be most affected, says WHO

UN body highlighted the tremendous effects COVID-19 had on community-based initiatives, access to healthcare facilities and healthcare goods …

100 million Nigerians are at risk of neglected tropical diseases: What the country is doing about it

Nigeria began concerted efforts to combat human and animal trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness and nagana) in 1947

Africans likely to live longer now; but will they live healthier?

The WHO said in a statement released August 4 that healthy life expectancy in its African region had increased on average by 10 years per person …

More Indians were diagnosed with hypertension than diabetes in 2017

Latest data from the National Health Profile 2017 confirms a previous study which said that hypertension is a bigger concern than diabetes in India

Feeding in asthma

Food that one finds allergic can cause problems in the respiratory tract according to a group of scientists inspecting children with breathing …

Most disease maps unreliable

Disease maps help capture distribution of pathogens and their transmission intensity. An international team of researchers has reviewed 355 of …

Swine flu tamed?

H1N1 cases on the rise but doctors say the strain is behaving like seasonal flu

Ecological nightmare

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