Simply Put: PM-JAY and COVID-19
Economic price for neglecting mental health of children is $387.2 billion a year: UNICEF
More than 13% adolescents aged 10-19 live with a diagnosed mental disorder globally
Children, adolescents who use e-cigarettes twice as likely to smoke conventional ones later: WHO
There is growing evidence that e-cigarettes affects brain development in adolescents
COVID-19: India, 57 other countries demand probe into WHO’s response
Draft resolution tabled for World Health Assembly starting on May 18
Antibiotic resistance: AMR among poultry, cattle a worry for Kenya
Health ministry draws up ways to prevent antibiotics residue from ending up in plate
ICMR launches third phase trial for adult anti-TB vaccine
The current vaccine for TB, the BCG, is only given to neonates
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
Punjab closer to ODF sustainability with community toilet guidelines
Recommendations not clear on how to treat waste, reuse groundwater
COVID-19: Vaccine export to resume from next month, says Mandaviya
More than 300 million doses will be produced in October and more than a billion in the next quarter, according to Mansukh Mandaviya
The world may soon get a vaccine against Chikungunya
A multi-country Phase II / III clinical trial of a vaccine led by the International Vaccine Institute in partnership with Bharat Biotech …
70% infections can be prevented if good hand hygiene is followed, says WHO
Improving hand hygiene in healthcare settings could save about $16.5 in reduced healthcare expenditure for every dollar invested
Breast milk substitute makers ‘insidiously’ targeting pregnant women, mothers on social media: WHO
Milk companies employing even more powerful marketing techniques to drive up their sales is inexcusable and must be stopped, says WHO
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
Re-design health innovation ecosystem for the common good: WHO
WHO’s Council on the Economics of Health for All issues brief on equitable health innovation
COVID-19 second wave throws up unique problems in Arunachal Pradesh
The sparsely populated state of various tribal lineage across a challenging topography stretches administration even as …
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
COVID-19 fallout: 25 million children missed routine vaccinations last year
India among countries where maximum number of children missed diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis shots
Cooking with ‘dirty’ fuels affects women’s mental health
Providing women in Nairobi, Kenya with stoves fuelled with bottled gas reduced their stress levels, study finds
‘Adenovirus is not new. Yet, we’ve never linked it with severe hepatitis’
Matthew R Vogt on link between acute flaccid myelitis & current acute paediatric hepatitis outbreak
Clear and present danger: Lancet study highlights AMR time bomb in India, world
A recent study in The Lancet showed alarming casualties due to antimicrobial resistance globally, especially Asia and Africa; it also …