A probe has been initiated by India's drug regulator after the World Health Organisation (WHO) issued an alert saying cough syrups manufactured by an Indian firm could potentially be linked to the death of children in The Gambia, official sources said.
In 2012, with one million deaths, China reported the highest toll from PM2.5 and PM10 pollution. At the time, India followed, reporting 621,138 deaths, nearly 10 per cent of the global toll associated with outdoor and indoor air pollution
A cleric in Pakistan's Punjab province has warned that a jihad would be launched against polio vaccination teams at a time when the World Health Organisation has expressed concern at the emergence of new cases of the disease across the country.
Fresh cases were reported from Chennai (4), Bengaluru (2), Mumbai (2) and Delhi (1).
The Taliban dispensation in Afghanistan has said that India will resume work in at least 20 stalled projects in several provinces across the war-torn country.
The Academy-award-winning actor said the medical team had already taken over.
The United States has reported the most deaths -- more than 2,05,000 -- followed by Brazil, India, Mexico and the United Kingdom.
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In an advisory issued by the Sports Authority of India (SAI) to all the NSFs, it said the athletes' health comes first. Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju warned country's athletes to be extra cautious in the wake of the deadly coronavirus outbreak
Over 150 people have already lost their lives in Mexico, the US and elsewhere, prompting the World Health Organisation to proclaim the flu as a 'public health emergency of international concern'. While the mad cow and bird flu could pass on from animals to humans through either direct contact with the diseased animals or on consumption of the under-cooked flesh of sick livestock, the swine flu virus A-H1N1 is easily transmittable from animals to humans and vice versa.
Taiwan's Department of Health said the number of probable SARS cases rose by 39 to 383 and a dozen more had died, bringing the toll to 52.
'Even if the clinical trials are successful and we have a couple of vaccines by the end of this year, we still need the hundreds of billions of doses, which will take time'
The eight-member Indian team of Ayurvedic and Allopathic doctors is headed by Dr Ram Manohar of the trust and the six-member US team is led by Dr Daniel E Furst of the University of Los Angeles.
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India is among 120 countries which backed the draft resolution put forward by the European Union and several other countries.
The new strain of bird flu which hit several parts of China has spread to Taiwan as it reported the first case while the World Health Organisation on Wednesday said the deadly H7N9 virus is far "more lethal" because of its ability to spread easily from birds to humans.
An intranasal vaccine as a booster dose would be easier to administer in mass vaccination campaigns and has the potential to prevent transmission.
The flight landed around 9.45 am at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi.
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Emerging evidence suggests that an increased risk of cancer and heart disease in adults can result in part from exposures to certain environmental chemicals during childhood.
The government on Friday announced that all places of work in the country will be declared smoke free and those found flouting the law will be strictly punished.
Gujarat Minister of State for Home Harsh Sanghavi on Wednesday said the Yoga Day event in Surat has set a 'new Guinness World Record' for the largest gathering of people for a yoga session at one place.
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A 31-year-old man from Kannur in Kerala tested positive for monkeypox on Monday, making it the second confirmed case of the disease in India, a Union health ministry official said.
She also pointed out that the poor from villages are afraid to go to court.
The Indian squad is packed with quality players but either wrist spinner Yuzvendra Chahal or Washington Sundar should have found place in the home team's line-up, reckons 2011 World Cup hero Yuvraj Singh.
A technical advisory group of the UN health agency which met on Tuesday has sought "additional clarifications" from Bharat Biotech for Covaxin to conduct a final "risk-benefit assessment" for Emergency Use Listing of the vaccine.
Despite a significant increase in women and child healthcare in India, more than nine lakh children in the country still die every year before becoming one-month-old, says a new global report.
The World Health Organisation noted on Thursday international pandemic alert remains at phase 5, on a six-level warning scale, as the number of laboratory confirmed cases rose to 2,099 up by 441 from Wednesday including 44 deaths. Twenty-three countries have reported influenza A(H1N1) infections, with Mexico reporting 1,112 cases and 42 deaths, and the United States confirming 642 cases and two deaths.
The TMC supremo, who started her poll campaign for the Bhabanipur by-election, also alleged that the saffron party is targeting party general secretary and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee for political reasons, claiming there is no valid case against him.
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Minister for Health and Family Welfare Anbumani Ramadoss is on an official visit to China,
'We pressurised him (to accept the deputy chief ministership).' 'Being out of power would have made him weaker.'
The move follows the World Health Organisation's Emergency Use Listing for Covaxin, which is the second most used formulation in India.
But the actor has denied smoking hookah at the restaurant, where the police raid had taken place.
The first study used spatial analysis to show that the earliest known COVID-19 cases, diagnosed in December 2019, were centered on the Wuhan market.
The United Nations health agency said it was 'concerned' at how the counting was being done.
In a historic commemoration, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lead a yoga session for the first time at United Nations Headquarters in New York on the 9th International Day of Yoga to be celebrated on June 21.
