WHO under scanner for declaring swine flu as a pandemic
Prepared by the Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), the report proclaimed its findings in Paris on Friday.Findings of the report...
View ArticleIndia fast becoming country of cancer and heart diseases--WHO
Dr Timorthy Armstrong, a WHO official on chronic diseases, says that lack of physical activity is very high in India, and that there is an urgent need for people to come forward and disseminate the...
View ArticleChina to go smoke-free publicly from May 1
The populated country has more than 300 million smokers, and almost 1.2 million people die because of smoking in China, according to the data provided by the United Nation’s World Health Organization...
View ArticleIndian immigrants responsible for TB prevalence in UK--Lancet report
Reportedly, the latest published content in the ‘Lancet Infectious Diseases’ journal says that the just-arrived Indian immigrants are responsible for almost 50 percent of the TB cases in UK.This is the...
View ArticleHeadache disorders most ignored and untreated: WHO
The latest WHO report states that headache is the most ignored and untreated disorders in the present times, and popping a painkiller is considered the best option.World’s first ‘Atlas of Headache...
View ArticleOver 18 million cancer survivors in US by 2022: Report
Currently, America has over 13.7 million cancer survivors and the improving cancer survival rates have led to grater number of cancer survivors every year. According to the report, the cancer incidence...
View ArticleNew Roll Back Malaria report highlights malaria burden in Asia‐Pacific
“We're pursuing the target of a 75 per cent reduction in malaria cases and deaths in the Asia‐Pacific by 2015,” said Senator Bob Carr, Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. “Malaria does not...
View ArticleDespite the odds, countries adopt illicit trade protocol of global tobacco...
In the lead up to the Seoul negotiations the World Health Organization, which administers the treaty, deemed the tobacco industry’s interference in these negotiations and the implementation of the...
View ArticleBi-directional TB Diabetes Screening in India and China
Fasting blood glucose tests for diabetes measured in TB patients at 7 tertiary hospitals and over 60 primary health care centres across the country showed that 13% of them had high blood sugar levels...
View Article346 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes
World Health Organization (WHO), International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and many other concerned organizations celebrate World Diabetes Day every year on the 14th of November in order to raise...
View ArticleAddressing The Double Burden of TB-Diabetes: Better Late Than Never
Realizing the gravity of the problem, the WHO issued a policy statement his year, on what needs to be done to address TB-diabetes co-infection. The urgent need to address the comorbidity of these two...
View ArticleTop-five critical global priority actions on AIDS in 2013
World AIDS Day: 1st DecemberThis report, 'Achieving the End: One Year and Counting', released by ‘AVAC: Global Advocacy for HIV Prevention’ outlines top-five list of critical global priority actions in...
View ArticleOperational strategy to stop TB despite tight purse strings
That is why perhaps the Stop TB Partnership has come up with an Operational Strategy for next three years (2013-2015) on how to implement the Global Plan to Stop TB by 2015 end with given human and...
View ArticleCaffeine during pregnancy tied to low baby weight--study
According to experts, a single mug of coffee a day increases the risk of giving birth to an underweight baby. The study found that even low levels of the stimulant raised the odds of babies being small...
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Fight against drug-resistant TB has come a long way in Viet Nam
"2.7% of new TB cases, and 19% of previously treated cases have MDR-TB in Viet Nam" said Dr Hoang Thanh Thuy of Viet Nam's national TB Programme (NTP). She was speaking with Citizen News Service – CNS...
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