Long working hours are detrimental to your health and may even cost lives. This is according to a recent assessment by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), which attributed long working hours to 745,000 deaths due to stroke and ischemic heart disease in 2016 alone. According to the ILO/WHO analysis, …
The Telangana State Government has declared “black fungus” — or mucormycosis — to be a notifiable disease. In a letter to the states, Union Health Ministry joint secretary Lav Agarwal said “all government and private health facilities and medical colleges have to follow guidelines for screening, diagnosis, management of mucormycosis. And, make it mandatory for …
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The 74th session of the World Health Assembly (WHA), the highest-level decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO), is to foreground pandemic preparedness whilst advancing measures to end the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 has dominated headlines and the public health discourse for well in excess of a year. The public health crisis is unprecedented …
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is already known to be India’s leading cause of death. Given a new insight into the demographic trends of those affected by the disease, a recent report has revealed that the condition is becoming increasingly common among women. The report ‘The Lancet Women and Cardiovascular Disease Commission: reducing the global burden by …
India, embattled by its second wave of COVID-19, continues to weather staggering numbers of deaths with the emergence of a new variant and the spread of black fungus causes for concern. The tragic toll of the second wave has manifested in the deaths of fifty medicos in a single day, reported by the Indian Medical …
Hypertension – raised blood pressure – is a major public health crisis in India, being a major risk factor for the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) – the country’s dominant killer. World Hypertension Day 2021 is an opportunity to stress the importance of checking your numbers, for the betterment of one’s health. As previously noted …
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Generic medicines are a core component of India’s reputation as the so-called ‘pharmacy of the world.’ The country has long been-renowned for its exports of affordable medicines to developing nations. As previously reported by Health Issues India, “generic medicines cost a fraction of the monopoly prices charged in countries like the United States, and competition …
The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has criticised usage of the term ‘Indian variant’ to describe B.1.617, a variant of COVID-19 first identified in Maharashtra last year. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently notified B.1.617 as a “variant of global concern” – the same designation given to COVID-19 variants first identified in Brazil, …
COVID-19 is often only measured through the narrow scope of its mortality rate. While the death toll is undeniably high, some disregard the disease due to the mortality rate now being between a range of one and two percent. However, some individuals, even those with mild symptoms, can experience lasting effects. So-called “Long COVID” is …
A view of a hospital ward in Assam in response to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic Image credit: AnjanBorah, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons The initial wave of COVID-19 in India had already pushed hospitals to breaking point. The second wave has seen both daily cases and death counts triple, with many now dying …
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