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WHO’s trivalent recommendations will reshape global flu vax mkt: Report
New Delhi: The World Health Organization (WHO) recently advised a reversion to trivalent (three-strain) influenza vaccines for the 2024 southern hemisphere influenza season that typically begins in April. This will likely reshape…
- India
India had highest number of preterm births in 2020: Lancet
New Delhi: India had 3·02 million preterm births in 2020 — the highest worldwide, and accounting for over 20 percent of all preterm births globally, according to a study published in the…
- India
Fake medicines: After WHO alerts, DGCI asks states to hold strict vigil
New Delhi: The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has directed the drugs controllers of all states and Union territories to keep a strict vigil on the sale and distribution of falsified…
- Health
Covid new variants BA.2.86, EG. 5.1 does not pose any danger to Indians: Experts
New Delhi: The new Omicron sub-variants BA.2.86 and EG. 5.1 will not pose any risk to Indians, said experts here amid fresh concerns of Covid-19. BA.2.86, known to be highly mutated, has…
- Health
Lack of sleep reduces cognitive benefits of exercise: Lancet Study
New Delhi: Sleeping for less than six hours daily may cut down the protective effect of regular physical activity against cognitive decline, according to a study published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity…
- World
Even deadlier: WHO chief cautions world over next pandemic
Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned all countries to gird up for the next pandemic which could be “even deadlier” than coronavirus. WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who had…
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World Health Organization turns 75, calls for health equity
Geneva: On the eve of its 75th anniversary, the WHO marked the occasion by calling for a renewed drive for health equity in the face of unprecedented threats. Seventy-five years ago, after…
- India
Samples found complying with specifications: Health Ministry to WHO on Gambian deaths
New Delhil: India’s Health Ministry on Thursday has told global health body WHO that all four products in connection with the deaths in Africa’s Gambia have been found to be complying with…
- India
WHO drew premature link between children’s deaths in Gambia, India-made cough syrups: DCGI
New Delhi: The WHO drew a premature link between the deaths of children in Gambia and the four India-made cough syrups which adversely impacted the image of the country’s pharmaceutical products across…
- World
WHO calls for making mental health priority for all
New Delhi: World Health Organisation has called on the member states in the South-East Asia Region to intensify action to achieve access for all to quality mental health care in line with…
- Middle East
Bahrain opens pre-registration for voluntary monkeypox vaccine
Manama: Bahrain’s ministry of health on Thursday announced the opening of pre-registration for the voluntary monkeypox virus vaccination for all citizens and residents, the Bahrain News Agency (BNA) reported. Limited stock is…
- World
WHO declares monkeypox a global emergency
Geneva: The World Health Organisation said the expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an extraordinary situation that now qualifies as a global emergency, a declaration Saturday that could spur…
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