Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Dhaka: Authorities in Bangladesh said on Wednesday they had begun an investigation into the deaths of 22 children who consumed paracetamol syrup, amid fears it may have been mixed with a toxic substance. Health minister ABM Ruhul Haq said a medicine factory in the eastern district of Comilla, near where …
New Delhi: A vaccine against typhoid, that not only protected those vaccinated but also people around them, has passed the test in India. The inexpensive vaccine against typhoid fever offers protection across age groups, particularly in pre-school-age children. A study conducted in the slums of Kolkata has also shown that …
Meena Menon Her name is also Kalavati. It is very unlikely though she will have any famous visitor in her humble hut at Mansudhavadi village of Dharni taluk in Amravati district. In March this year, when Kalavati Javarkar gave birth to her second child, a daughter, her one-year-old son Shubham …
Srinivas Sirnoorkar: GULBARGA: DH News Service Two decades ago public health officials and volunteers committed themselves to eliminating polio from the country by the year 2000. But nine years past the deadline, cultural suspicions and superstition among some Gulbarga families have made the eradication of polio far from assured. Children …
New Delhi: Scientists from Imperial College, London, on Tuesday announced a large-scale study which found that closing down schools entirely during a flu pandemic may cut infection rates by 40%. With almost 60% of the world
NEW DELHI: With 14 school children in the Capital having tested positive for swine flu, the State Health Department on Tuesday cautioned schools in Delhi to keep an eye out for students showing symptoms of the highly contagious disease. Warning that swine flu needs early detection and proper treatment, the …
Country's more than 40 percent children aged under five years and one-third of mothers suffer from malnutrition, a nutrition specialist of International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) said here on Monday. Describing the country's nutrition status at a seminar on mainstreaming nutrition, Head of Nutrition Programme of the …
Health Department Director Dr K.Shylaja has said that the Japanese encephalitis (Japan fever) vaccination is perfectly safe and that it has not caused any side-effects as was reported. A teenage girl, Athira, 15, who had been admitted to the Medical College Hospital here after she complained of giddiness post-vaccination, had …
Over 90L Children Will Be Administered Jab Between 2009-11 Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: A single shot will soon protect children against five diseases. The health ministry will soon take the proposal to introduce a pentavalent vaccine (5X1) in its national immunization programme to the Cabinet for final approval. …
The closure of all the three government-run vaccine manufacturing units in the country in January 2008 has had a major implication on the immunisation programme of the country in 2008-2009. Not only has there been a shortfall of vaccine, the government target achieved has been far less than what was …
India is reeling from a debilitating shortage of vaccines, which has severely affected the universal immunization programme reveals the latest report in Down To Earth (DTE). Is based on response to an RTI application filed by DTE that revealed how a plan to promote private vaccine makers boomeranged. See Also …
Down To Earth filed an RTI application to find out the reason of vaccine shortage in India. The response revealed how a plan to promote private vaccine makers boomeranged. The health ministry was forced to get vaccines illegally from the very public sector manufacturers it suspended last year Shuvam Kumar …
Official admission In December 2008, a team of health ministry officials toured 13 states to review the National Rural Health Mission. They found, among other things, hospitals in Bihar did not have vaccines for diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus. The review also reported shortages in Assam, where measles vaccine was …
Strengthen public sector The lack of foresight shown by former health minister Anbumani Ramadoss in shutting the public sector without first ensuring alternatives and lack of transparency have put a generation of children at risk. Clearly, the private sector
