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Nov 27, 2022 01:45 PM IST Camel flu virus, considered to be a deadlier cousin of Covid, kills up to a third of everyone who gets infected, the WHO stated.
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Nov 24, 2022 11:05 AM IST The decision, which could be announced as early as Wednesday comes in response to growing pressure from senior Biden officials, who privately urged WHO leaders to change the name, Politico added.
- Nov 17, 2022 06:35 AM IST
The exit of Soumya Swaminathan, an Indian pediatrician, announced on Twitter, comes as Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus's second term as leader of the 74-year-old U.N. agency gets underway. Swaminathan did not give a reason.
- Nov 15, 2022 02:00 PM IST
Prime Minister Modi, World Health Organisation Director-General Ghebreyesus and Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth laid the foundation stone for the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine (GCTM) in Gujarat's Jamnagar city in April.
- Nov 09, 2022 10:39 PM IST
Overall, the WHO has reported 629 million cases and 6.5 million deaths linked to the pandemic.
- Nov 05, 2022 07:09 PM IST
Yohei visited the primary health centre in Ranchi's Pithoria area on Saturday and saw the leprosy elimination works being done here. He also met the workers.
- Oct 20, 2022 06:20 PM IST
The Ministry of Health of Uganda has shown remarkable resilience and effectiveness and (is) constantly fine-tuning a response to what is a challenging situation
- Oct 20, 2022 03:13 PM IST
The new Omicron sub-variants have been detected in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Officials say there is no reason for panic as the variants detected in India so far haven’t been associated with severe disease.
- Oct 19, 2022 08:50 PM IST
The WHO's emergency committee first made the declaration for COVID-19 on Jan 30, 2020. Such a determination can help accelerate research, funding and international public health measures to contain a disease.
- Oct 19, 2022 08:47 PM IST
The U.N. agency said "the exceptional decision reflects the grave state of the cholera vaccine stockpile" at a time when countries like Haiti, Syria, Malawi are fighting large outbreaks of the deadly disease, which spreads through contact with contaminated water and food.
- Oct 16, 2022 06:19 PM IST
Seeking help for mental health in India is no longer taboo, thanks in part to social media therapy. However, one needs to be circumspect about such advice.
- Oct 14, 2022 03:25 PM IST
Recently WHO chief warned about devastating long Covid situation, underscoring the impact of persistent Covid symptoms on health and productivity of people. Over the last year researchers have focused on understanding the long-term effects of the disease. So what do the studies tell us?
- Oct 11, 2022 10:04 AM IST
Panacea Biotic shares surged on the bourses-NSE and BSE- after the pharmaceutical firm announced on Monday that it had bagged a long-term supply order from UNICEF and Pan American Health Organisation for supply of its pentavalent vaccine Easyfive-TT.
- Oct 07, 2022 06:42 PM IST
All production activities at the factory have been stopped; staff have been told not to attend work till clarity emerges on the issue.
- Oct 07, 2022 11:23 AM IST
At least three Indian states and one country had acted against Maiden Pharma for producing substandard products
- Oct 06, 2022 07:11 PM IST
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- Oct 06, 2022 06:10 PM IST
"Samples have been sent to a central pharmaceutical laboratory for testing," Anil Vij, the health minister of Haryana state where Maiden has its factories, told reporters. "Strict action will be taken if anything is found wrong."
- Oct 06, 2022 01:56 PM IST
The samples have been collected from the manufacturing facility of Sonipat-based Maiden Pharmaceutical in Haryana.
- Oct 06, 2022 12:07 PM IST
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- Oct 06, 2022 11:20 AM IST
The death of 66 children in the West African country is a blow to India's image as a "pharmacy of the world" that supplies medicines to all continents, especially Africa.
- Oct 06, 2022 09:32 AM IST
The Indian authorities are awaiting the exact one to one causal relation of death as it has not yet been provided by WHO.
- Oct 05, 2022 09:10 PM IST
The four products have been identified in Gambia but may have been distributed, through informal markets, to other countries or regions, World Health Organization said.
- Sep 24, 2022 12:26 PM IST
The repercussions of the pandemic on routine immunisation programmes in the African region are yet to be fully realised. What we do know so far is that the pandemic has resulted in substantial disruptions to national routine immunisation programmes.
- Sep 23, 2022 07:55 PM IST
Bahl started his career as a scientist at the All India Institute of Medical Science and has been working with WHO for the past 15 years
- Sep 17, 2022 10:55 AM IST
At least for the time being, there are no recommended antibody therapies to treat COVID. There are, however, still other treatment options.
