The agency said the manufacturer and marketer have not given guarantees to the WHO on the safety and quality of the product. The WHO lists the “toxic effects” of the syrup as “abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, inability to urinate, headache, altered mental status and acute kidney injury” that can lead to death. According to a […]
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised the “ambitious” goals of the new network, saying it “could play an important role in health security”. “As was clearly shown to us during the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is stronger when it stands together to fight shared health threats,” he said. The IPSN, announced a day before the […]
Pandemic has lost crores of lives: WHO
Over 400 killed, 3,500 injured in fighting in Sudan: WHO
Over 400 killed, 3,500 injured in fighting in Sudan: WHO
Extreme heat can affect the country’s economy. Several sectors, including agriculture, manufacturing, minerals, mining, transport and construction, contribute more than 50 percent to Bangladesh’s gross domestic product (GDP). Most of the laborers in these sectors work in the open. However, there is no concrete data on this workforce. Those who work in the open have […]
The inclusion of obesity drugs in the WHO’s list of essential medicines could be very important for that population. Experts say adding HIV drugs to the list in 2002 helped make them more widely available to AIDS patients in poor countries. “Currently,[the list]does not include any drugs that specifically target weight loss for the ongoing […]
The World Health Organization is working with Cambodian authorities after two human cases of H5N1 bird flu were confirmed in the same family in the country. Describing the situation as “alarming” due to the recent increase in cases in birds and mammals, Dr. Recent Events. The UN health agency last assessed the risk to humans […]
Experts have been tracking H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b since it emerged in 2020, but there have recently been reports of mass deaths in infected mammals from seals to bears, as well as a possible mammal-to-human outbreak on a Spanish mink farm last year. – Mammal transmission has picked up. Worry However, very few human cases have […]
A small IT company in the central Indian city of Indore has come up with an unusual way to ensure its employees maintain a healthy work-life balance – by creating software to remind them when their shift is over And it’s time to go home. SoftGrid Computers’ software is equipped with a notification system that […]
The UN has warned that at least 870,000 people across Turkey and Syria are in urgent need of hot food. Up to 5.3 million people may be homeless in Syria alone. Some 26 million people have been affected by the quake, the World Health Organization (WHO) said, as it launched a flash appeal on Saturday […]
India is known as the “pharmacy of the world” and its pharmaceutical exports are set to more than double in the last decade to $24.5 billion in 2021-22. That image has been tarnished by the deaths of at least 70 children in the Gambia and 19 in Uzbekistan last year. Government data shared by Health […]
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who serves as WHO’s ambassador for global health funding, said, “Specialized medical supplies and expertise are urgently needed if we are not to leave the sick to disaster, disease and death.” want.” “I want to urge donors to urgently respond to this emergency appeal for vaccines, drug treatments, equipment […]
China reported a big jump in COVID-19 hospitalizations in the week to Jan. 15 since the pandemic began, according to a weekly report published by the World Health Organization on Thursday. However, the WHO said it awaited “different provincial data until the week of reporting” on the nearly 60,000 additional COVID-related hospital deaths reported by […]
This includes 5,503 deaths due to respiratory failure directly caused by the virus, and 54,435 deaths due to underlying diseases combined with Covid, Xiao said. Since abandoning its zero-covid policy in early December, China has been accused of downplaying the number of deaths from the virus. Health officials stressed on Wednesday that it was “not […]