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. …
About 33 per cent children who have still not been immunized in the state under its public healthcare programme are set to benefit by the vaccine’s launch. The Maharashtra government, Sunday, launched the ambitious pentavalent vaccination programme across the state to provide infants with five vaccinations in one dose for …
Kangra is one of the three districts in the country where rotavirus vaccination is being introduced in the public health system as a pilot project by the Union Health Ministry this month. The vaccine, Rotavac, is being launched first time in the country to eradicate diarrhoea, especially in infants. As …
Judgement of the High Court of Delhi in the matter of Jacob Puliyel Vs Union of India & Others dated 14/10/2015. This petition, by way of Public Interest Litigation, is filed seeking a direction to the respondents to provide complete data of the results of the Multi Centre Clinical Trial …
As per National Health Profile 2015, there will be 19 percent increase in cancer among men by 2020 with mouth cancer registering the highest spike and a 23 percent increase among women with gall bladder cancer showing the sharpest increase. The cancer incidence in men will rise from the current …
Polio eradication needs a new routine immunisation schedule—three or four doses of bivalent type 1 and type 3 oral poliovirus vaccine (bOPV) and one dose of inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), but no immunogenicity data are available for this schedule. The researchers aimed to assess immunogenicity of this vaccine schedule.
AHMEDABAD: With the city registering 20 dengue cases on Wednesday, experts sounded an alarm and warned against unnecessary platelet transfusion. Unless a patient's platelet count is below 10,000 and there is spontaneous, active bleeding, no transfusion is required in dengue patients as it might cause serious complications like sepsis and …
India has eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus. It has been reduced to less than one case per 1,000 live births across the country , the World Health Organisation (WHO) has validated adding India to the list of countries that have successfully battled the disease. “This is a huge achievement for …
Rates more influenced by financial constraints and access to services than anti-vaccination beliefs, finds University of Adelaide study Anti-vaccination beliefs aren’t the main reason almost 10% of Australian children remain unimmunised. Family finances, access to services and chronic health conditions were key factors in why some parents don’t keep their …
AURANGABAD: Mass awareness, universal guideline for immunisation and hygienic handling of food and water will help curb hepatitis, said experts on Tuesday while observing world Hepatitis Day. About, two million people contract hepatitis every year from unsafe injections. These infections can be averted through the use of sterile syringes that …
This entire fortnight paediatricians from the city will be focusing their attention on spreading awareness about the use of oral rehydration therapy (ORS) and benefits of breastfeeding. While they will draw attention towards preventing lakhs of infant deaths because of diarrhoea between July 26 and August 1 to mark World …
This Month — July - was a very auspicious month for Nigeria in 2014. Two health related occurrences took place in that month. On Sunday July 20 2014, Patrick Sawyer flew into Lagos airport, a sick man with Ebola Virus Disease. He died five days later, but not before infecting …
The number of countries reaching and sustaining 90% coverage of children with routine life-saving vaccinations has doubled since 2000. Updated data on the status of immunization worldwide in 2014 reveal that 129 countries, 6 more than in 2013, now immunize at least 90% of their children with the required 3 …
ust three years ago, Nigeria was a threat to the global push to eradicate polio. Africa’s most populous nation recorded 122 cases in 2012, more than all other countries combined, and funders of the eradication campaign were growing exasperated with the nation’s faltering vaccination efforts and exportation of cases. Now …
The Ministry of Health is pleased to publish this year’s Annual Health Bulletin (AHB) 2015; the 28th edition in its series. The AHB presents status of health of Bhutan 2014, progress of Millennium Development Goals, the fact sheets of cause-specific morbidity, facility-based cases and case-loads, health service coverage, health risk …
JAIPUR: Awareness and use of Integrated Child and Development Services (ICDS) remains low among most mothers in the state. For children aged between 0-35 months, only 6.6% mothers were aware that nutrition and health education is being provided at AWC. Lack of awareness prevails both in urban and rural areas …
Sokoto — Sokoto State has recorded over 5000 cases of non-compliance to the routine immunization campaign against polio virus from January to June, this year. It would be recalled that about 700 cases of rejection of the polio vaccines were recorded in the state during the September, 2014, round of …
Health Minister launched the National Health Innovations Portal , which will be a repository of all innovations contributed by the states. The launch of this health portal today comes a day after the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, launched the Digital India Week yesterday. It was launched bu J P …
Baitadi, the hilly district in the far west region, has been declared the first fully immunised district. Altogether 10 districts in the country have been declared fully vaccinated including Baitadi-- the first in the Mahakali zone. The plan to declare the fully immunized district was achieved after all the people …
The report looks at the state of inequality in health, answering key questions: according to the latest available data, what is the status of inequality across and within countries? How have levels of health changed in population subgroups over time? The report found that overall, inequalities were to the detriment …
