Current Affair Category: Health

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recognized GLP-1 receptor agonists as an effective class of drugs for managing obesity. These drugs mimic the action of the glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) hormone, which helps regulate both appetite and blood sugar levels. Here’s a detailed overview of these drugs and others that are approved for weight management: […]

An unseen health crisis: India’s poor air quality its impacts: the topics was published in the HINDU-25/11/24 Why it is important: GS 3/GS1 – Impacts of Air pollution on Social/ Economic/Health India’s poor air quality has been silently affecting communities for decades, with lethal results. “Air pollution is the biggest environmental risk to health, even […]

Why India Needs an Environmental Health Regulatory Agency India is facing increasing environmental degradation and its adverse impact on public health. A dedicated Environmental Health Regulatory Agency (EHRA) can address these challenges by linking environmental issues directly to public health outcomes and ensuring coordinated action. Significance of an Environmental Health Regulatory Agency Integrated Approach to […]

Sir Fredrick Banting’s birth anniversary is observed as World Diabetes Day onNovember 14every year as a tribute to the history behind the discovery of insulin, one of medicine’s greatest breakthrough; the eternal Flame of Hope burns in Canada tohonourBanting’s achievement Discovery of Insulin: Historical Context: Before the discovery of insulin, diabetes, especially Type 1 diabetes, […]

Doctors’ strike reveals how apathy to health pushes people into poverty: West Bengal’s healthcare expenditure is 1% of its gross state domestic product, and 68% of healthcare expenses in the State come from the pockets of patients, the second worst figure in India after Uttar Pradesh. The State also spends less than 3% of GDP […]

Why in News?  Poor households globally lose 5% of their total income in an average year from heat stress and 4.4% from floods compared with households that are relatively better off, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations said in a report recently, warning about the negative impacts of climate change on the […]

India is best in terms of sustainable feeding habits, as reported in the 2024 Living Planet Report recently published by the World Wide Fund (WWF). Indian food is the least harmful to the climate among the developed countries. The report discovered that if all the nations follow the Indian style of eating, then by 2050 […]

Why in News ?  Victor Ambros, a researcher at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, and Gary Ruvkun, a molecular biologist at the University of Massachusetts Hospital and a professor at Harvard University Medical School, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine after discovering microRNA . The microRNA heavily involves  in cell function. MicroRNA […]

The NITI Aayog has recently proposed the establishment of a comprehensive framework to handle future public health emergencies or pandemics effectively. Lessons Learned from COVID-19: Gaps in Legal Frameworks: Existing laws like the Epidemic Diseases Act (1897)and National Disaster Management Act (2005) were insufficient for handling large-scale health emergencies. These laws lack clarity on definitions of epidemics and […]

The Central Drugs Standards Control Organisation (CDSCO) declared more than 50 drugs, including paracetamol, Pan D, and calcium supplements, as ‘not of standard quality’ in its recent monthly report, raising safety concerns regarding their usage. A Not of Standard Quality (NSQ) Alert is an official notification issued by regulatory authorities, such as the Central Drugs Standard Control […]