The world over, diabetes is spreading at exponential rates. Diabetes is one of the most potent symbols of lifestyle diseases and the most worrisome aspect of this health crisis is the rate…
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Rio Olympics receive thumbs up from the WHO amidst Zika fears
The world is past the moment of no return as far as the 2016 Rio Olympics is concerned, it seems. All the authorities concerned have thrown their weight behind the event, rejecting…
Rio Olympics 2016, or how not to deal with a deadly zika pandemic
For the uninitiated, Plague Inc. is a funereally unsettling yet addictive disease simulator game where the player tries to wipe out humanity by creating and evolving plagues of bacteria, viruses or even…
It’s Official, the Zika Virus is Linked to Birth Defects
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have set all doubts to rest regarding the links between the dreaded Zika virus and birth defects, particularly microcephaly, thus corroborating what people have believed…
TB ranks alongside HIV as a leading cause of death worldwide, WHO says
The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that while the fight against tuberculosis has met with great success, the disease is still a leading cause of deaths worldwide. In its latest Global…
WHO: Processed meat is carcinogenic to humans; red meat probably carcinogenic
The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified processed meat as carcinogenic to humans and red meat as probably carcinogenic to humans. The classification comes after thorough review of…
Some red and processed meat could be classified as carcinogenic in WHO report
It is highly likely that a report to be released tomorrow by The World Health Organization (WHO) may classify some ored and processed meat as carcinogenic and these speculations have forced meat…
It has been a year since a polio case was reported in Africa
The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that it has been a year since a case of wild polio was registered in Africa – an important achievement towards being a polio-free continent….
GSK’s malaria candidate vaccine Mosquirix garners EMA’s nod
One of world’s leading pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) revealed that its malaria candidate vaccine Mosquirix also known as RTS,S has landed European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) positive scientific opinion for children aged 6…
One third of people in world still without sanitation facilities: UNICEF
In a startling report the WHO and UNICEF have warned that quarter of population in the world is still without proper sanitation facilities and this threatens and undermines the efforts and progress…
WHO: Best practices for naming of new diseases will minimise unnecessary negative impact
Swine Flu, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Spanish Flu, Japanese encephalitis, other such names for human infectious diseases not only create negative impact on trade, travel, tourism or animal welfare, but also may…
WHO outs best practices for naming new human infectious diseases
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has linked the naming of new diseases with unnecessary negative effects on nations, economies and people – so much so that it has also pegged disease names…
WHO’s latest Model list of Essential Medicines includes hepatitis C, cancer, TB drugs
The World Health Organization has released the latest edition of its Model List of Essential Medicines and in the list has included treatments for hepatitis C, a variety of cancers (including breast…
Malaria vaccine could be available as early as October this year
Final trial data for the first malaria vaccine candidate dubbed RTS,S/AS01, research for which is funded by GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA and the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, are out and though the vaccine…
WHO recommends just one hour of music everyday to avoid hearing loss
World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that as many as 1.1 billion teenagers and young adults are at risk of hearing loss due to the unsafe use of personal audio devices including…