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. …
THE government may increase the number of days on which vaccines are administered under the State's vaccination drive, Director of Public Health and Medicine Dr P Padmanabhan has said. As of now, vaccines are administered every Wednesday by Village Health Nurses, usually in schools or anganwadis. With the State Government's …
Rule Out Fault In Cold Chain System All four children who died after being administered the measles vaccine in Tamil Nadu on April 23 suffered severe brain haemorrhage resulting from an anaphylactic shock, an inquiry has found. This will be pointed out by the fivemember expert team sent by the …
At least three children died of waterborne diseases in three days and on an average one person was losing life every fortnight in the villages on the embankment of Manchhar Lake because its water had become too toxic for human consumption, found a survey on Sunday. The survey conducted by …
At least 16 children, aged between two and three years, died in Hailakandi district bordering Mizoram over the past one month due to gastro enteritis, official sources said here today. Hailakandi DC Tapan Chandra Goswami said soon after reports of the deaths, medical teams were sent to the affected areas …
The parents of the toxic industrial waste's victims have moved the Sindh High Court to annul a district and sessions' court order on March 26 that acquitted a factory owner and others in a case pertaining to dumping of highly toxic industrial waste in an open area in Site Town, …
KOLKATA: It's good news for the children suffering from rotavirus diarrhoea as rota vaccine is all set to be launched in the city soon. Confirming that the vaccine will be launched in the month of May, Dr Jaydeep Choudhury, assistant professor, department of pediatrics, Institute of Child Health said : …
UNLESS there is heavy rain in the Murray-Darling Basin over the rest of the year, 90% of South Australians face environmental catastrophe caused by the movement of heavy metals in solution up the river by osmosis. Osmosis is the process by which any solution that is in higher concentration in …
Only one case of P-I wild virus has been reported this year in Delhi against two cases of polio reported in 2007 whereas 866 cases were reported at the national level during 2007, said Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit launching another new phase of the Special Intensified Pulse Polio Immunisation …
A new set of procedures to administer vaccines to children will be tried in the State, following the death of four infants in Tiruvallur district after measles vaccination. Vaccination The Directorate of Public Health (DPH) is contemplating a model wherein children in a particular district would be brought to the …
In the wake of the casualties of children reported from Tiruvalluvar district of Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan Government on Friday suspended the administration of measles vaccine in Jodhpur division of the State. The vaccine stocks, which reached there three days back, belong to the same source as of the Tamil Nadu, …
Among the many environmental concerns surrounding nuclear power plants, there is one that provokes public anxiety like no other: the fear that children living near nuclear facilities face an increased risk of cancer. Though a link has long been suspected, it has never been proven. Now that seems likely to …
Decades of misguided policies and untrained or weak leadership have left the children of India defenceless, threatening the future of the country. What are the solutions? April 26-May 2, 2008
Four 10-month-old babies died within minutes of being administered an antimeasles vaccine at two medical camps in Tamil Nadu's Thiruvallur district on Wednesday. Three girls died at a centre in Pennalurpettai village, about 75km from Chennai. The fourth, a baby boy, died after getting the shot in Venkatapuram village near …
Four children died in southern India after getting measles vaccinations at state-run clinics and the state has suspended use of the vaccine, health officials said Thursday. It was not yet clear exactly what caused the deaths, said Tamil Nadu state's director of public health, P Padmanabhan. Vaccine samples have been …
The sudden death of four children after they were administered measles vaccine in primary health centres in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvallur district is a grievous tragedy. That the deaths should occur in a State with a better record of health services delivery at the primary level is ironical. The involvement of …
The Centre has recalled the measles vaccine, after the administration of which four children died in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvallur district on Wednesday. Instructions have been issued to the States to stop the use of this vaccine until further orders, while the manufacturer has been asked to not to make any …
MEASLES vaccine comes in powder form. It must be used immediately after it is mixed with a fluid, says Dr Jacob John, former professor of the Department of Clinical Microbiology and Virology . Multi-vial doses of these vaccines must be used within four hours; else they will act as a …
A day after a Noida school student died during a morning physical exercise session, Newsline takes a look at how several institutions are redrawing their schedules for morning assemblies. At Delhi Public School-RK Puram, Kirti Narain, a student, says fainting is common
Four children, all below 10 months of age, died after being administered measles vaccine at Pennaloorpettai and Venkatapuram villages in Tiruvallur district near Chennai on Wednesday. Another 15 children have been hospitalised after developing anaphylaxis reaction after being administered the vaccine, sources in the Public Health Department said. "No problems …
Manipur Health Minister Pheiroijam Parijat today expressed concern over the deaths of 30 children due to a mysterious disease, and that he would send a medical team to examine the cause of the disease. The deaths occurred in Manipur's Churachandpur District. Health officials informed that most of the children who …
