Tag: Diseases

According to a  study published in The Lancet on Thursday, the average global life expectancy has increased by over 6.2 years between 1990 and 2021. A research team led by Simon Hay from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington attributed this increase over ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minister on Wednesday called for unified efforts to tackle global infectious diseases like COVID-19 and emergencies caused by climate change, nearly 1 1/2-year after devastating floods killed 1,700 people in his nation. Representatives from 70 countries, the World Health Organization, and other international organizations ...

#Pakistan News Experts have pointed out that the spread of malaria is shifting northward due to rising temperatures linked to climate change. This infectious disease might emerge in the southeastern Anatolia region of Türkiye, and malaria cases may appear in central Anatolia and northern regions. One of the studies ...

As with so many infectious diseases, lack of determination is the real stumbling block. The United States and other donor nations could argue that we already do more than our share, contributing billions annually to the fight against TB and other infectious diseases. But donors still fall short by ...

According to the National Mental Health Survey of India, there is a huge gap between the number of people who have some common mental illness and the number who actually received treatment for the same.  | Photo Credit: file photo A study by researchers from NIMHANS and the University ...

Why It Matters: Combining vaccines could offer longevity.Oral polio vaccines, administered in droplet form, have driven down polio cases by more than 99 percent in recent decades. But because the drops contain live viruses — detectable in the excrement of children who get the vaccine — the virus can ...

“At the moment, if you look at the climate change discussions, the world hasn’t really grappled with the health impact,” says Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.“Infectious disease is likely to be one of the single most, if not the single ...

Deaths from cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), the leading cause of deaths worldwide, jumped 60% globally from 12.1 million in 1990 to 20.5 million in 2021, according to a new report by the World Heart Federation. The report highlighted that high blood pressure, air pollution, tobacco use, and elevated LDL cholesterol ...

/ Shows / Perspective Issued on: 25/04/2023 - 11:43Modified: 25/04/2023 - 11:45 10:05 PERSPECTIVE © FRANCE 24 Every minute, a child somewhere on the planet loses their battle against malaria. Four African nations account for just over half of all deaths worldwide: Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Niger. ...

The planet's weather over the past three years has been dominated by a natural cycle called La Niña — an oceanic phenomenon that results in below-average sea-surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean and lower average temperatures worldwide. But forecasters predict that, sometime between this summer ...