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June 05, 2023 06:02 PM IST Under its G20 presidency, India has proposed a medical countermeasure coordination platform to effectively deal with challenges of any Covid-like pandemic.
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June 05, 2023 02:21 PM IST Under its G20 presidency, India has proposed a medical countermeasure coordination platform to effectively deal with challenges of any Covid-like pandemic.
- May 26, 2023 08:20 PM IST
Just days after announcing an end of Covid0-19 as a global emergency, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked world to be prepared of a deadlier pandemic.
The WHO maintains a list of “priority diseases” that pose a significant risk of causing the next pandemic.
Familiar names like Ebola, SARS and Zika have secured their place on this register, but there is one entry that stands out with an ominous moniker — Disease X.
What is this ‘Disease X’?
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- May 25, 2023 03:42 PM IST
The ominous moniker 'Disease X' serves as a placeholder for an unknown pathogen that has yet to be identified by medical science as a cause of human infections.
- May 23, 2023 11:51 AM IST
A new pact is a priority for WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who called it a "generational commitment that we will not go back to the old cycle of panic and neglect" at the U.N. agency's annual assembly.
- May 19, 2023 03:02 PM IST
The UN health agency's annual world statistics report also showed a swelling threat from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes.
- May 17, 2023 10:34 AM IST
Some nutrition experts pointed out limitations in the WHO report, which was largely based on observational studies that cannot directly establish a causal link between artificial sweeteners and weight or disease.
- May 16, 2023 06:55 PM IST
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned against using sugar substitutes to control body weight or reduce the risk of noncommunicable diseases.
- May 16, 2023 11:59 AM IST
"India has taken important steps to improve the quality of care during labour and childbirth, leading to reductions in maternal deaths. This will also bring better outcomes for newborns," Dr Anshu Banerjee, Director, Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing at the World Health Organisation, Geneva, told PTI here.
- May 08, 2023 04:43 PM IST
The government is urged to increase NCCD, GST cess and ad valorem each by 10 percent so that the overall tax on tobacco can be higher than the per capita income and inflation growth.
- May 06, 2023 11:08 AM IST
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the pandemic has been on a downward trend for more than a year.
- May 04, 2023 11:18 AM IST
The WHO first gave COVID its highest level of alert on January 30 2020, and the panel has continued to apply the label ever since, at meetings held every three months.
- April 26, 2023 07:35 AM IST
Speaking to reporters in Geneva via video link from Sudan, the WHO's representative in the country, Nima Saeed Abid, said technicians were unable to gain access to the National Public Health Laboratory to secure the materials.
- April 21, 2023 04:23 PM IST
WHO has so far recorded 11 attacks on health facilities in the country and has called for such attacks to cease, spokesperson Margaret Harris said.
- April 18, 2023 08:04 PM IST
The United Nations has warned of a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, including the near collapse of the health system.
- April 12, 2023 07:29 AM IST
The WHO said the exact source of bird flu infection and how this virus was related to other avian influenza A(H3N8) viruses circulating in animals, was still not known.
- April 09, 2023 11:36 AM IST
Chinese researchers, led by the China CDC’s former director George Gao Fu, however, argued in their study of the specimens that the samples were insufficient to prove the Covid outbreak started there as a result of the virus jumping from animals to humans.
- April 07, 2023 10:27 AM IST
"Without full access to the information that China has, you cannot say this or that," said Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in response to a question about the origin of the virus.
- April 06, 2023 07:19 PM IST
On the World Health Day, the World Health Organisation (WHO) celebrates 75 years of improving public health and well-being globally.
- April 04, 2023 07:30 AM IST
The report analyzed existing studies conducted from 1990 to 2021 and showed that about 17.5% of adults across the world were affected by the inability to have a child. WHO officials said the report takes into account several research approaches.
- March 31, 2023 11:06 AM IST
The patient, a plant mycologist by profession, was working with decaying material, mushrooms and various plant fungi for a long time.
- March 27, 2023 01:18 PM IST
As of January 2023, India had 88,278 active cases of leprosy. At 17,014, Maharashtra has the highest number of cases, followed by Bihar at 11,318.
- March 24, 2023 03:23 PM IST
It also highlighted the urgent need for strengthening high-level leadership and investments and accelerating the uptake of innovations and new recommendations of the world health body.
- March 18, 2023 10:12 AM IST
The Huanan market in central Chinas Wuhan city was the epicentre of the pandemic. From its origin there, the SARS-CoV-2 virus rapidly spread to other locations in Wuhan in late 2019 and then to the rest of the world.
- March 06, 2023 10:56 PM IST
"If any country has information about the origins of the pandemic, it's essential for that information to be shared with WHO and the international scientific community," said the World Health Organization's director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
