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To consider something a miracle cure, you need much larger numbers of patients being treated, being followed up for a much longer time, and results analyzed,’ Dr C S Pramesh tweeted. N Ahmad Earlier this week, a drug called Dostarlimab wiped out rectal cancer in a small group of patients who took it for about six months, making it a major breakthrough that amazed and excited the world. The development has been dubbed “remarkable” by Dr C.S. Pramesh, Director Tata Memorial Hospital; Division of Surgical Oncology in a series of tweets. “A drug called dostarlimab, an anti–PD-1 monoclonal antibody...
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Climate change made a severe rise in heat in India and Pakistan 30 times more likely, says a study Extreme Event Attribution Saadia Azim Two people were killed on May 30 when dust storms and heavy rains lashed various areas of Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) bringing the capital city to a standstill for hours as the storm caused chaos, catching people off guard. While sitting in a cosy office space in faraway Kolkata, a few of us discussed the frequent rains, storms, and heat stress that leave people affected and even dead. A noted professor among us observed that if rare storms be...
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The Foreign Press Association, Africa has registered its displeasure against media outlets using images of black people alongside stories of the monkeypox outbreak in North America and the United Kingdom. By N Ahmad At the height of COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) had to advise against naming pathogens for places to “minimize unnecessary negative effects on nations, economies and people.” Even though by February 11, 2020, the WHO had named the then fast-spreading virus as SARS-CoV-2 and the illness it caused as COVID-19, some politicians, including former US president Do...
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A video claiming that “consuming bitter gourd or white radish after ladyfinger results in food poisoning, skin diseases and even death” is fake news N Ahmad Uploaded on Facebook on May 17, 2020, a fake video warning against eating bitter gourd with ladyfinger has got 88 million views, 1.2 million likes, 0.28 million shares and 11000 comments. The narrator in the video warns that if anyone consumes bitter gourd after eating a ladyfinger, they will get food poisoning and die. In addition, he warns against eating white radish after having a ladyfinger, comparing it to drinking milk with fish whic...
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Ninety two percent of pollution-related deaths, and the greatest burden of pollution’s economic losses, occur in low-income and middle-income countries N Ahmad Pollution is responsible for around 9 million deaths per year, accounting for one in six deaths worldwide, reveals the latest report of The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health. Air pollution – both household and ambient air pollution – is generally responsible for the greatest number of deaths, causing 6·7 million deaths while water pollution claims 1·4 million lives. The report also reveals pollution’s deep inequity: 92 percent o...
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A peek into the mental health chronicles of four people who availed of psychotherapy during the pandemic – to understand their unique journeys and learnings from the experience. By Jisha Krishnan “Psychotherapy is not advice,” writes clinical psychologist Jorden B. Peterson in his bestseller 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. The pandemic gave many of us the opportunity to discover what therapy truly entails – through personal experiences as well as lived experiences of people in our personal and professional circles.In the first year of the COVID-19 outbreak, the global prevalence of an...
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In rural China, where blood pressure control rates are poor, especially in rural areas, an intervention led by village doctors is proving successful in addressing the issue. In China, hypertension is a serious public health problem as it has increased almost 400 percent from 1980 to 2015 – from an estimated 59 million to 244.5 million – and has accounted for over 2 million deaths or 24.6 percent of all-cause mortality. A latest study published by the Lancet, the community health workers, or “village doctors,” successfully treated people with uncontrolled high blood pressure in 326 villages in ...
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India objects to “the use of mathematical models for projecting excess mortality estimates in view of the availability of authentic data.” By N Ahmad New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021 was approximately 14.9 million The WHO’s estimates indicate that while India experienced roughly 830,000 excess deaths in 2020, the country saw over 3.9 million excess deaths in 2021. Of these, 2.3 million deaths took place over two months – April and May 2021...
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By N Ahmad Svitlana Zlenko, who fled Mariupol with her son, wrote a poignant post describing her experience in the war-torn nation and its crumbling healthcare system. Her post which has been translated into English by Ukrainian-American economist Roman Sheremeta draws attention to the evolving health crisis in Ukraine. “There is no connection in the city, no water, no gas, no ambulances. People with torn limbs bleed in their yards and no one can help them. These are peaceful people – our acquaintances and relatives. The dead are simply being covered by soil,” reads one of her posts, translate...
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This World Health Day, Health Analytics Asia spoke to Prof. Shamika Ravi, Senior Fellow at Brookings Institute and former member of the PM’s Economic Advisory Council under Narendra Modi, on India’s healthcare system, its opportunities and challenges. By Tariq Hashmat On the occasion of 72nd World Health Day, as COVID-19 rejuvenates discussions on equitable healthcare, Health Analytics Asia spoke to Prof. Shamika Ravi. An economist with experience in public policy design, Prof. Ravi spoke on India’s efforts on improving its grassroots healthcare, including the country’s flagship Ayushman Bhara...
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