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December 11, 2024 4:07 PM
India has seen significant progress in reducing malaria incidence and mortality rates, according to the latest World Malaria report, released by World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday. Malaria is a life-threatening disease transmitted to human...
November 18, 2024 12:11 PM
Developing countries are particularly vulnerable to antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a global health concern that undermines the effectiveness of life-saving medicines and complicates the treatment of infectious diseases, said Saima Wazed, World Healt...
November 14, 2024 1:26 PM
Diabetes, a chronic metabolic disease characterized by elevated blood sugar, is one of the most prevalent health issues today. A new study published in The Lancet has found that more than 800 million adults across the globe have diabetes, almost doub...
November 9, 2024 11:14 AM
Pakistan’s Punjab province is grappling with a severe pollution crisis as air quality hits unprecedented levels. Multan’s Air Quality Index (AQI) reached an alarming 2,135, casting the city in a thick, hazardous smog that disrupted daily life and...
November 5, 2024 4:03 PM
South Korea has become a top testing ground for the sweetener allulose, a potential rival to sugar substitutes like stevia that is finding favour among both local food influencers and big domestic food companies, which are ramping up production. Fo...
October 29, 2024 8:02 PM
Lahore has once again secured the grim title of the most polluted city globally, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) soaring to a staggering 708, as reported by Dawn. The PM2.5 levels reached a dangerous 431 µg/m³, an alarming 86 times above the World...
October 18, 2024 3:53 PM
Packaged food and drinks should have easy-to-read nutritional information on the front of the products to help consumers make healthier choices, according to the first-ever World Health Organization draft guidelines that stopped short of recommending...
October 17, 2024 12:10 PM
Western Pacific nations are unlikely to meet the United Nations target of reducing premature deaths from lifestyle-related diseases including cancer and diabetes, due to the slow decline in alcohol and tobacco consumption, the World Health Organisati...
October 13, 2024 6:04 PM
In a significant achievement for public health, India has been officially declared free from trachoma, a contagious bacterial infection and a leading cause of preventable blindness, by the World Health Organization (WHO). This declaration follows yea...
October 10, 2024 3:25 PM
Some countries have pledged to donate doses of mpox vaccines to combat an outbreak of the disease in Africa after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a global public health emergency in August for the second time in two years. Such donat...
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