Many diseases have obesity as a risk factor. Calorie restriction, bariatric surgery, and pharmaceuticals are currently used as therapies. However, the number of obese persons is still rising. The increased…
World Health Organization
-
-
Fine particle air pollution led to 238,000 premature deaths in the European Union in 2020, the bloc’s environmental watchdog said Thursday, a slight rise from the previous year. Across the…
-
After years of decline, the planet is now witnessing a “worrying upsurge” in cholera outbreaks, the World Health Organization warned Friday. In the first nine months of this year alone,…
-
Indonesia has recorded its first case of monkeypox in a 27-year-old man who returned from travelling overseas, the country’s health ministry said on Saturday. The World Health Organization designated the…
-
India confirmed its first monkeypox death on Monday, a young man in the southern state of Kerala, in what is only the fourth known fatality from the disease in the…
-
The rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak constitutes a global health emergency, the World Health Organization’s highest alert level, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared on Saturday. First identified in monkeys, the…
-
BA.5, part of the Omicron family, is the latest coronavirus variant to cause widespread waves of infection globally. According to the World Health Organization’s most recent report, it was behind…
-
The number of people who have died from Covid-19 in Europe, the long-time epicentre of the pandemic, has passed two million, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Thursday. “A devastating…
-
A new World Health Organisation (WHO) report, which is being considered the most comprehensive look at the true global toll of the pandemic so far, reveals that the actual number…
-
The WHO said Tuesday that “epidemic” overweight and obesity rates are linked to over 1.2 million deaths annually across Europe, calling for swift policy changes to reverse the dangerous trend.…
-
Robin, 20, from India’s southern city of Hyderabad, tested positive for Covid-19 in April last year. At the time, India’s healthcare system was overwhelmed with hundreds dying each day in…
-
The first confirmed case of symptomatic COVID-19 can be traced to a female seafood vendor at a wholesale food market in China’s Wuhan, not an accountant who lived far away,…
-
More than 30 percent of Lebanese children go to bed hungry because they do not have enough food, while 77 percent of families do not have enough money to buy…
-
A year and a half after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic that has claimed over 33 lakh lives and infected more than 16 crore people worldwide so far, an…
-
THE Indian State failed conclusively in containing the second surge of the Covid pandemic. According to news reports, the jump in daily Covid cases in Delhi from March 1 to…
-
A top scientific adviser to the Indian government warned on Wednesday the country would inevitably face further waves of the coronavirus pandemic, as almost 4,000 people died in the space…
-
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued guidance saying children over the age of 12 should wear masks, in line with recommended practice for adults in their country or area.…
-
Geneva: Ahead of Ramadan, World Health Organization (WHO) issued interim guidelines for religious practices during the month of Ramadan. These guidelines were issued in the context of the COVID-19. It may…
-
SHAFAQNA- RT:According to the confirmation of the World Health Organization (WHO), the first vaccine trial for the Covid-19 virus has begun as the world continues to battle the growing pandemic.…