WHO Says Life Expectancy Has Increased By Five Years Since 2000, But Health Inequalities Persist.

Dramatic gains in life expectancy have been made globally since 2000, but major inequalities persist within and among countries, according to this year's 'World Health Stat...

Paying The Price Of Climate Change In Human Health

Increasing frequency and severity of deadly typhoons in the Pacific, flooding in Chennai, India, the total desiccation of Lake Poopó, the second largest lake in Boli...

Spread Of Polio Remains A Public Health Emergency: WHO Ratan

World Health Organization (WHO) has said the spread of international spread of polio remains a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The body also recom...

NFDC’s Film Bazaar Day 2 cements film collaborations and contracts

~ New segments, Writers Lab WIP Lab, Producers Lab a huge hit ~

Goa, Saturday, November 2​2 2014: National Film Devel...

World conference on education for sustainable development opens next week in Japan

Unesco’s director-general, the Crown Prince of Japan and Princess Lalla Hasna of Morocco — the President of the Mohammed VI Foundation for the Protection of the...

PM?s climate change council recast

The Union government reconstituted the Prime Minister?s Council on Climate Change on Wednesday to coordinate the National Action Plan for Assessment, Adaptation and Mitigat...

Ebola risk high for India: Expert

In an exclusive email interview with “The Hindu” Harvard Medical School Professor Ashish Jha, predicts that India may well have “at least a few cases befo...

Private sector urged to invest in sustainable development at World Investment Forum

“There is a strong business case for investing in sustainability. Private sector approaches can help us to innovate,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a...

The World Health Organization Says Yes To An Experimental Ebola Drug

A panel of experts convened by the World Health Organization has unanimously endorsed the idea of offering unproven vaccines or treatments to help combat the unprecedented ...