-The Times of India   CHENNAI: When traditional methods of using chemical pesticides, fogging and releasing Gambusia fish into water bodies fail to do enough to control mosquito menace, a little out-of-the-box thinking is required. Digital interventions are beginning to take over to help grapple with vector-borne diseases. The city corporation's health department is working on an app to monitor the fieldwork of 5,000 workers who visit households to eliminate mosquito breeding...

-The Hindu Vector-borne diseases are adding to the vicious cycle of poverty and have a significant impact of socio-economic status of communities, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. While countries in South-East Asia have made substantial economic progress, dengue and Malaria fuel a vicious cycle of poverty and are still killing thousands of people. On World Health Day - April 7 - the WHO has impressed upon countries to prevent...

-Outlook New Delhi: India is one of the ten countries in South-East Asia Region where Malaria is endemic and kill thousands of people, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Forty per cent of the global population at risk of Malaria live in the South-East Asia Region-- home to a quarter of the world's population. Malaria is endemic in 10 of the 11 countries of the Region which includes India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic...

-Outlook Mumbai: Weak coordination among government agencies was one of the challenges in tackling vector-borne diseases (such as Malaria, dengue) in India, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The WHO is going to initiate an awareness campaign in the metropolis on such diseases by roping in the famed 'dabbawalas' (tiffin carriers) of the city, it said. The organisation, with Maharashtra Health Department and Nutan Mumbai Tiffin Box Suppliers Charity Trust, today called...

-The Times of India Funding for one of the foremost drug discovery projects in India came to an end on Monday as the financial year closed because the ministry of science and technology did not clear the cabinet note meant to extend funding for the project on time. The Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) project of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), meant to discover drugs for neglected diseases, had...