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Road accident deaths swell to 1.35 million each year: WHO

Road accidents kill someone every 24 seconds, with a total of 1.35 million traffic deaths around the world each year, the World Health Organization said Friday, demanding global action. The number of fatalities annually has swelled by around 100,000 in just three years, with road accidents now the […]

New drug slashes death rates among drug-resistant TB patients: scientists

A new treatment for a deadly drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis can cure more than 90 percent of sufferers, according to a landmark clinical trial whose results were revealed exclusively to AFP. Doctors in Belarus — a country with one of the world’s highest rates of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis — […]

Shri J P Nadda inaugurates ‘2nd World Conference on Access to Medical Products: Achieving the SDGs 2030’

open view web desk “India is deeply committed nationally and globally to achieving all public health goals. Together we are working towards providing highest possible standards of health care for our citizens. Universal health coverage is key to the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 agenda and to which India […]

WHO plays down risk to Indian children from tainted polio vaccine

open view web desk MUMBAI- The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday that there was minimal risk of children contracting the polio virus in India from a tainted batch of vaccines. The public health scare, which potentially affected thousands of children, put a renewed spotlight on lax […]

Bad air day: Indian city chokes on world’s worst pollution

open view web desk Soot turned the white handkerchief around Abhash Kumar Sharma’s face to black as the police officer tried to direct gridlocked traffic in the Indian city with the world’s dirtiest air. It was all he had to ward off the pollution blamed for filling Kanpur’s […]

India should follow China’s example and clean up the air in its cities, which are among the world’s worst for outdoor pollution, the World Health Organization

open view web desk GENEVA – India should follow China’s example and clean up the air in its cities, which are among the world’s worst for outdoor pollution, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. The WHO’s database of more than 4,300 cities showed Indian cities such as […]

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