The number of lives lost due to viral hepatitis infections is increasing and already accounts for 3,500 deaths daily, according to this report by the World Health Organization (WHO). This is the first consolidated WHO report on viral hepatitis epidemiology, service coverage and product access, with improved data for action. …
Tackling polio has entered "emergency mode" according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative after "explosive" outbreaks in countries previously free of the disease. It has launched a plan to boost vaccination in Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the only countries where the disease is still endemic. Experts fear the disease could …
The report of the Hunger and Malnutrition Survey, which was conducted between October 2010 and February 2011 to assess the rate of under-nutrition among children under the age of fi ve in 100 focus districts of rural India, makes progress in measuring under-nutrition at the district level in some of …
LUCKNOW: National Rural Health Mission's Project Approval Board has given UP more than what it asked for. The board not only sanctioned funds for projects worth Rs 3,187.57 crore, it also allowed the state to add unspent balance of about Rs 700 crore. Therefore, NRHM fund allocation for 2012-13 would …
NEW DELHI: India will for the first time introduce a vaccine against Rubella - a viral disease that infects pregnant women and leads to babies being born with cardiac, cerebral, ophthalmic and auditory defects. The Union health ministry so far believed that the disease, also called German Measles, did not …
When the Lokayukta Police raided the palatial house of director (medical services) A N Mittal in Bhopal last week, his agitated wife dared them to target his political bosses to whom, she said, he periodically pays Rs 1 crore and “not small fry like us”. Her embarrassed husband had to …
LUCKNOW: The routine immunisation campaign is all set to get its due attention. State unit of National Rural Health Mission has fixed annual targets for routine immunisation. Mission Director, NRHM, Mukesh Meshram said, "We have fixed targets for all health indicators of which routine immunisation is an important one. By …
The residents of 15 villages have boycotted the polio vaccination to protest alleged lack of proper nutrition and other facilities to the children by the state-run Anganwadi Centres in Munger district, official sources said on Wednesday. Parents did not allow health workers to vaccinate their wards during the ongoing polio …
“Delayed implementation of accelerated disease control in India” has led the country to account for “47 per cent of estimated measles mortality in 2010” stated a paper published today (April 24) in The Lancet . At 36 per cent, even the World Health Organisation (WHO) African region accounted for lesser …
With 65,500 Casualties In 2010, India’s Record Is Poorer Than Africa’s, Says WHO-Spearheaded Study. Nearly half of all deaths due to measles globally occurred in India in 2010. While mortality due to measles dipped from 5.35 lakh in 2000 to 1.39 lakh globally in 2010, India recorded 47% of those …
“Nearly 9.7 million children in the South-East Asian region still do not get the most basic of vaccines like the third dose of DTP-containing vaccine. Immunisation is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions. Growing opportunities through new funding as well as research and development initiatives should not go …
LUCKNOW: National Rural Health Mission's (NRHM) general body set new targets for the state health department on Wednesday. Though still behind other states, the body headed by chief secretary Jawed Usmani also approved Rs 3787.57 crore project implementation plan (PIP) for NRHM's second innings for the year 2012-13 in the …
CHENNAI: On the occasion of National Immunisation Day on Sunday, over 170 million children were vaccinated against polio in vaccination booths set up across the country. This has been followed by 5 days of door-to-door immunisation activity. Though the NID is a Government of India initiative, in Chennai groups like …
A total of 4.48 lakh children under the age of five under the old limits of the Chennai Corporation were covered in the second phase of pulse polio vaccination held here on Sunday. Over 4,500 staff and volunteers participated in the drive. A total of 4,95,512 children below the age …
LUCKNOW: The district health administration will hold the Pulse Polio Immunisation Day on Sunday (April 15). While the administration has targeted about six lakh children (up to five years) in the district under the drive, special focus would be on rural areas. Chief medical officer, Varanasi Dr Gyan Prakash said …
A year and a half after cholera first struck Haiti, a tiny portion of the population on Thursday began getting vaccinated against the waterborne disease that has infected more than 530,000 Haitians and killed more than 7,040. Organizers of the vaccination campaign, who have been pushing to do this since …
Scientists claim to have developed a “universal” cancer vaccine that can train patients’ own bodies to seek out and destroy tumour cells. A team from Tel Aviv University and drug company Vaxil Biotheraputics say the therapy targets a molecule found in 90 per cent of all cancers, and could soon …
Indian drugmakers such as Zydus Cadila, Panacea Biotech and Serum Institute have resumed production of the swine flu vaccine as the once-pandemic disease threatens to strike again. The vaccine makers are anticipating an increase in demand because nearly 281 patients have tested positive to the dreaded H1N1 virus and 21 …
The latest UNICEF report presents a hard-hitting view of the condition of poor children in urban areas. COMPARISONS between and studies of living conditions in rural and urban India are aplenty, though disaggregated data on the specific deprivations confronting populations in urban centres are not all that easy to find. …
Even though India appears to have done fairly well in combatting polio by administering oral drops, the World Health Organisation (WHO) in a meeting scheduled this week is likely to deliberate on injectable option, in a bid to ensure complete elimination of the polio virus. Recommended by the India Expert …
Scientists, including an Indian-origin researcher, claim a vaccine against heart attack is being developed, which could be available within five years. Coronary heart disease occurs when fatty plaques build up in the blood vessels feeding the heart and over time become narrowed. Parts of the plaque may break off causing …
