Though the government is spending a fortune on propagating the use of Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) for children suffering from diarrhoea, doctors at government dispensaries in Punjab and Haryana ar
According to a government report in June 2017, the AWD killed 272 people and infected 16,000 in a number of states including Gedarif, White Nile, Khartoum, Sennar, River Nile, North Kordofan, and G
PATNA: At least 115 malaria cases were reported across Bihar from January till March this year, as per the monthly surveillance report available on the state health society’s website.
Hundreds of people suffer from diarrhea and colic admitted to hospitals during the past two days in Iraq's central province of Salahudin due to contamination of drinking water, medical sources said
According to the National Health Portal, India stands second on the world diabetes chart with 69.2 million cases after China with over 100 million cases.
The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) is generating important and often nonintuitive information about the prevalence, incidence, morbidity, and mortality of the world’s major communicable and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). An emerging narrative from the GBD is the gradual ascendency of the NCDs, especially among the world’s large low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). But with regards to the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), we have also seen how these chronic and debilitating infections of poverty might also account for a high percentage of the global disease burden.
