by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 7, 2023 | Breaking News!, Health, Indian News, Risk Management
The United Nations agency in its medical products alert said the batch of the syrup, branded Cold Out, had higher than acceptable limit of contaminants diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol The World Health Organization on Monday flagged a batch of contaminated common...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 1, 2023 | Data, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Non-Life
Around 1.3 million people die from second-hand smoke every year. All of these deaths are entirely preventable. People exposed to second-hand tobacco smoke are at risk of dying from heart disease, stroke, respiratory diseases, type 2 diabetes and cancers In the last 15...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 30, 2023 | Data, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Policy
The WHO also announced that cancer medicines are among those that have been added to the latest version of the WHO Essential Medicines List and the Essential Medicines List for Children, Geneva: Treatment remains out of reach for hundreds of thousands of children...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 27, 2023 | Data, Health, Non-Life
The WHO’s essential medicines list is a catalogue of the drugs that should be available in all functioning health systems Obesity drugs will not join the World Health Organization’s (WHO) latest essential medicines list, but treatments for diseases,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 25, 2023 | Data, Health
Cases of MERS-CoV – which can cause fever, coughing and shortness of breath, and in some cases can lead to pneumonia – have been recorded in 27 countries since 2012, according to WHO figures. Over that time, 2,605 cases and 936 associated deaths have been...