Despite significant progress in recent years, India continues to have considerable issues with child mortality. Issues such as low birth weight cause high death rates among newborns. Meanwhile, the country’s under-five mortality rate is the highest in the world.
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India has undergone an industrial revolution in the last few decades. This has made the country one of the world’s largest economies. It has also had disastrous effects on both public and environmental health.
Highlighting this issue, recent World Health...
Though figures are disputed, anywhere between 300 million and 522 million individuals still practice open defecation in India. This figure is higher than anywhere else in the world. Poor sanitation is a recurring issue linked to many of India’s health...
A global index of 180 countries has placed India 145th in regards to water quality and sanitation. India’s most famous river, the Ganges, is currently in a state of pollution. Low water quality and a supply of groundwater that...
Eli Lilly, maker of the anti-obesity drug Zepbound, announced last week the launch of LillyDirect, a direct-to-patient portal, allowing some patients to obtain its drug for as little as $25 a month.
The move is seen as a major shift in the...
There’s welcome news in the battle against the Ebola virus, an infectious disease that for years had almost no treatments or remedies.
Outbreaks of the deadly Ebola virus flare up in parts of Africa almost every year, and they’re vicious.
The...
The world has run out of cholera vaccines—just when the deadly disease is on a rampage not seen in many years. Fifteen countries are currently reporting active outbreaks, with more than 40,900 cases and 775 deaths reported in January...
“Me first”—that’s how Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization (WHO), described the wealthy world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic when he kicked off negotiations for a global “pandemic treaty” in December 2021. Even before vaccines had...
A 62-year-old man with end-stage renal disease has become the first human to receive a new kidney from a genetically modified pig, doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston announced on Thursday. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/first-pig-to-human-kidney-transplant-performed-boston-2024-03-21/
The four-hour surgery, performed on March 16, “marks...
A single dose of an experimental antibody drug protects children from malaria for up to 6 months, according to a clinical study published today in The New England Journal of Medicine. www.science.org/content/article/injectable-antibody-drug-protects-children-malaria-mali-trial?
The therapy, an injectable monoclonal antibody called L9LS that has already...