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Health | Oct 04, 2017, 08:21 PM ISTWHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced Soumiya Swaminathan's appointment on Tuesday morning.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced Soumiya Swaminathan's appointment on Tuesday morning.
World Health Organisation warns: New treatments will not be sufficient to fight the threat of antimicrobial resistance.
Breastfeeding has both cognitive and health benefits for both infants and new mothers.
Shocking figures reveal that one in every six elder people have faced physical, pscyhological or financial abuse.
India has 14.4 million of obese kids which constitutes the second highest number of obese children in 2015, following China with 15.3 million children who’re obese.
World Health Organisation has added 10 antibiotics to the list for adults and 12 for children.
Yemen has hit the number 605 and the numbers are expected to exceed 73,000.
"Having very, very strong political will at the highest level with proper leadership and guidance is most essential for the successful implementation of digital healthcare in the country," said Mark Landry, Regional Advisor, (South-East Asia), WHO.
More than two-thirds of around 1.2 million deaths of adolescents due to preventable causes such as road accident injuries and suicide took place in low- and middle-income countries including India in 2015, the WHO said.
The Indian government is set to change the meaning of blindness to align it with the WHO criteria and ensure the Indian data on visual impairment meets the worldwide evaluations. As defined under the National
The World Health Organisation (WHO) today said that an experimental Ebola vaccine has been found to be 100 per cent affective against the deadly virus in a major human trial in Guinea.
Over 90 per cent of the world’s population is breathing poor quality air, an analysis by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed, with air-pollution responsible for over 11 per cent of deaths globally.
Even as Delhi records rising number of mosquito-borne illnesses, its much smaller southern neighbour Sri Lanka that was among the most malaria-affected countries 60 years ago, has now been certified a malaria-free nation by the
New Delhi: In a major achievement for India in terms of public health, the World Health Organisation has certified India as the first country to be free from maternal and neonatal tetanus and YAWS. YAWS
London: In what would come as a respite to all coffee lovers, the World Health Organization's research arm today declared there isn't enough proof to show that the drink can lead to cancer. However, the
Geneva: Voluntary, unpaid blood donations must be increased rapidly in more than half the world’s countries in order to ensure a reliable supply of safe blood for patients whose lives depend on it, according to
Mumbai: One Indian woman dies every 5 minutes in India during pregnancy and child birth, the World Health Organisation said on Sunday. Out of the total 529,000 maternal deaths occuring in world , 136,000 or
Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) today rejected a call to move or postpone the impending Rio Olympics over the Zika virus outbreak. The health watchdog said in a statement that "based on current assessment,
London: Health experts on Friday urged the World Health Organization to consider whether the Rio de Janeiro Olympics should be postponed or moved because of the Zika outbreak. The 150 experts — including former White
New Delhi: As the debate over an alcohol bans grows across India, 15 people die every day - or one every 96 minutes - from the effects of drinking alcohol, reveals an IndiaSpend analysis of
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