Half of the world’s population still does not have adequate access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) which could have prevented at least 1.4 million deaths and 74 million disability-adjusted life years in 2019, according to this latest report by the World Health Organization (WHO). The report summarizes …
Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech to develop and sell vaccines for pneumonia, diarrhea. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will fund two Indian firms
Multinational pharmaceutical drug company MSD, the fully owned subsidiary of Merck & Co, on Wednesday launched a diarrhoea-prevention vaccine RotaTeq for infants and children in India. RotaTeq is a pentavalent rotavirus vaccine that helps in preventing rotavirus gastroenteritis, a leading cause of severe and life threatening diarrhoea in young children. …
Climate change is expected to have large impacts on health at low latitudes where droughts and malnutrition, diarrhea, and malaria are projected to increase. The main objective of this study was to indicate a method to assess a range of plausible health impacts of climate change while handling uncertainties in …
It was a cold January morning. As the mist cleared, groups of women could be seen wending their way to the aanganwadi (kindergarten) in Khitwans village in Lalitpur district’s Birdha block. The women were either pregnant or lactating mothers. Pramilla Jha, a counsellor for infant feeding, was waiting for them. …
DRUG firm Glenmark Pharmaceuticals on Monday said it has achieved positive results in human trials for its new drug molecule Crofelemer, which is aimed at treating diarrhoea in adults. In a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the firm said resolution of diarrhoea was significantly higher in human subjects, …
Contaminated and polluted water kills more than 2.2 million people per year which experts point out is more than the number of people killed from all forms of violence, including wars. The situation is especially dangerous in India where 80 per cent of all urban water is being discharged daily …
SALEPUR: As many as 73 people have been affected by diarrhoea in Baselikata village under Narasinghpur block. Nonofficial sources, however, put the figure at more than 150. Receiving information, a fourmember medical team rushed to the village and set up a medical camp. Today, another eight patients were admitted to …
BHUBANESWAR: After Rayagada district, diarrhoea has struck Cuttack. At least 53 inhabitants of a village under Narasinghpur block are found suffering from the disease in the last five days prompting Health Department to send a medical team to keep a watch on the situation. All cases came from Baselihata village …
AN INDIAN healthcare joint venture between drugmaker Merck & Co and UK-based charitable entity Wellcome Trust plans to develop heat stable oral rotavirus vaccine to prevent diarrhoea in babies in developing countries. It plans to develop oral vaccines in thin strips or granules to improve its stability, ease of use, …
Bokaro, Jan. 18: The fear of diarrhoea has gripped Porabad in Silphor village under Babudih panchayat of Chadankyari block. Fourteen people, including three children and eight women of the village, had to be rushed to a private nursing home today suffering from diarrhoea and nausea. Villagers suspect that they might …
Wednesday was an unmemorable day for the family of Mayank Goyel, a resident of Goregaon (West), when all of them suffered chronic vomiting and infective diarrhoea, while his youngest daughter Sandhya tested positive for hepatitis E. But doctors say the 12-year-old is not the only one battling the infectious disease …
PURI/NABARANGPUR: The scourge of diarrhoea is back claiming three persons each in coastal Puri and predominantly tribal Nabarangpur districts. Many more are fighting for lives. Three persons died today and five were battling for lives in Puri infectious diseases hospital (IDH) after bouts of diarrhoea, while another 55 are undergoing …
DIBRUGARH, Dec 15: Julie Moran (12) died while 13 others of Ashadeep Residential Bridge Course centre under Sarva Siksha Abhiyaan were taken ill at North Jaloni LP School in Duliajan today. Moran, daughter of Indeswar Moran of Kakopathar in Doomdooma, is a student of the fifth standard and was declared …
Already marred by violence, tribals from the interior villages of Dantewada are facing a new challenge. A number of people last month died of or fell a victim to a water-borne disease. Though the state government maintains it is DVD (diarrhoea-vomiting-dysentry), experts suspect it to be as severe as cholera. …
Globally, around 2.4 million deaths (4.2% of all deaths) could be prevented annually if everyone practised appropriate hygiene and had good, reliable sanitation and drinking water. These deaths are mostly of children in developing countries from diarrhoea and subsequent malnutrition, and from other diseases attributable to malnutrition. How is an …
A safe, reliable, affordable, and easily accessible water supply is essential for good health. Yet, for several decades, about a billion people in developing countries have not had a safe and sustainable water supply. It has been estimated that a minimum of 7.5 litres of water per person per day …
With as many as 21 deaths occurring due to an outbreak of diarrhoeal diseases, including cholera, in a cluster of tea estates in Sonitpur district over two weeks, the Assam government on Monday decided to file cases against three tea estates for gross negligence of healthcare of labourers. The government …
