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By Nidhi Jacob The artificial (chemical) sweetener aspartame, is a "possible carcinogen", but is safe to consume within recommended limits, two World Health Organization-linked groups have declared. Aspartame is about 200 times sweeter than table sugar and is widely used in various food and beverage products as a sugar substitute, including diet drinks, chewing gum, gelatin, ice cream, dairy products such as yogurt, breakfast cereal, toothpaste and medications such as cough drops and chewable vitamins, according to the WHO. What does the study say? The International Agency for Research on Canc...
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By BOOM Team Several European countries have sounded alert over the new Omicron subvariant that has caused a spike in Covid-19 cases in the US since the last month. On Friday, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said over 27% of Covid-19 cases in the United States were now caused by Omicron XBB.1.5, a highly contagious subvariant. In the last week of December 2022, the subvariant constituted over 40% of the Covid-19 cases in the US. Expressing concern over the new variant, Germany's health minister Karl Lauterbach said that Berlin was closely monitoring the situation. "Hopefully we g...
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By The Conversation Michael Head , University of Southampton One consequence of the pandemic was reduced access to routine healthcare and lower uptake of immunisations. As a result, in November 2022, the World Health Organization declared measles to be an "imminent threat in every region of the world". They described how a record number of nearly 40 million children had missed at least one measles vaccine dose in 2021. Measles is a viral respiratory illness. Transmission is similar to COVID, with the spread between people being driven by respiratory droplets and aerosols (airborne transmission...
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By Sourit Sanyal On November 28, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced "mpox" as the new name for the monkeypox virus, which was quick to spread panic across the world earlier this year, including in India, when the first case was reported in Kerala back in July 2022. "Following a series of consultations with global experts, WHO will begin using a new preferred term "mpox" as a synonym for monkeypox. Both names will be used simultaneously for one year while "monkeypox" is phased out," the WHO said. The virus, endemic to central and west Africa is caused by a zoonotic virus in the genus...
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By BOOM Team The World Health Organisation on Wednesday issued an alert over four paediatric cough syrups manufactured in India, warning that they would potentially harm the health of those consuming the product, and could be linked to the death of 66 children in The Gambia. The four cough syrups — Promethazine Oral Solution, Kofexmalin Baby Cough Syrup, Makoff Baby Cough Syrup and Magrip N Cold Syrup — are manufactured by Maiden Pharmaceuticals Limited in Haryana. The WHO said, "To date, the stated manufacturer has not provided guarantees to WHO on the safety and quality of these products." W...
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By The Conversation New guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO) strongly advises against using the antibody therapies sotrovimab and casirivimab-imdevimab to treat patients with COVID-19. This guidance, published in the British Medical Journal, replaces previous conditional recommendations for the use of these drugs. It's based on emerging evidence that they're not likely to work against current COVID variants such as omicron. Also Read:Irani Women Are Cutting Their Hair, Burning Hijabs After Woman's Death In Police Custody This means that, at least for the time being, there are no r...
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By Sana Fazili Two Indian cities — Delhi and Kolkata — have have topped the charts of the world's most polluted cities in the latest report on global air pollution. Mumbai has been ranked 14th according to the report released by the State of Global Air. India, in fact, is home to 18 of the 20 cities with the most severe increase in PM2.5 pollution from 2010 to 2019. The latest State of Global Air Report is part of an initiative on air quality between the Health Effects Insitute and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, with inputs from the University of British Columbia. Also Read: ...
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By Nozia Sayyed The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently claimed that the Monkeypox virus which has been detected in over 70 countries as of now, is most prevalent among a particular network — of men having sex with men (MSM). The statement was further clarified by the WHO claiming that 'since most of the positive cases were picked up from sexual health clinics showed that the disease was mostly diagnosed among MSM group it was announced that this particular community takes more precautionary measures.' However, this has not gone down well with the LGBTQ community that has demanded the gov...
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By Mohammed Kudrati The World Health Organization has decided to declare the ongoing monkeypox outbreak an international public health emergency after global cases crossed 16,000 with five deaths across 75 countries. The decision was made in an Emergency Committee meeting convened by Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, after a similar meeting last month decided against the declaration. India reported its first monkeypox case on July 14 in Kerala by a man returning to Thiruvananthapuram from the United Arab Emirates. The government sent an expert team National Centre for Disease Co...
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By Kaisar Andrabi DELHI- Rita Baradhwaj, 42, a community health worker, was on her way to a newborn's house when she got a call from her colleague. "We have won an award from the World Health Organisation," the excited caller told her. A moment of delight was immediately followed by a question, "Will the government increase our wages now?" Her colleague had no answer. The call ended and Rita kept walking in the scorching heat to finish her first visit of the day in Sangam Vihar, a densely populated locality in South Delhi. On May 22, the WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus honor...
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