Influenza, or flu, and air pollution are significant public health risks that impact nations around the world with large economic consequences. The authors of this paper show that increased levels of air pollution significantly increase the rate of hospitalisation for people with flu. In addition, they find that protection afforded …
Pune Four centres to take part, two in city The Serum Institute of India will begin phase II and III human clinical trials of the nasal spray vaccine against the H1N1 virus at two sites in Pune and three other centres on Monday. The virus has claimed 201 lives in …
GANDHINAGAR: More than three people died of swine flu in Gujarat every single day of January this year, according to a revelation made in the Gujarat Assembly on Thursday. And this, after the state government invoked the Epidemic Control Act for the first time on August 18 last year. State …
Azad asks young doctors to opt for postings in rural areas The vaccine has reached the human clinical trial stage 68 students receive degrees at NIMHANS convocation Bangalore:An indigenously developed vaccine against influenza could be a month away, according to Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad. …
Pune The State health department has registered two more deaths due to the HINI virus, including a 10-month-old baby and a 38-year-old woman. This takes the death toll due to swine flu to 180. 10-month-old Vaishnavi Jagtap from Hadapsar was admitted to Sassoon hospital and tested positive with the virus. …
Rajkot: Three more swine flu deaths were reported from Saurashtra in last 24 hours. While a girl died at PDU Hospital in the city, two persons died at Bhavnagar
Biotech major Feb. 2: Biotech major Bharat Biotech International hopes to bring out swine (H1N1) vaccine in April. The city-based biotech firm was one of the three firms that the government had selected for developing India's indigenous swine flu vaccine. The other two are Serum Institute of India and Panacea …
Bindu Shajan Perappadan NEW DELHI: Still enjoying a breather from the slew of swine flu cases reported until a few weeks ago, doctors in the Capital now warn that with the season changing the relief might not last long.
Pune For the first time in six months not a single case of H1N1 virus has been reported at Sassoon General Hospital in last two days. There has been a positive drop in the number of cases at the government hospital. According to National Institute of Virology (NIV) Deputy Director …
Surat: Seven patients admitted to various hospitals in city tested positive on Sunday. Meanwhile, city administration served two more hospitals with a notice for not reporting positive swine flu cases, as per the norm. The government figures show that as many as 20 swine flu patients are receiving treatment in …
Mumbai City doctors are noticing a new variant of influenza affecting patients these days. In the past six months, patients have reported shorter bouts of influenza in repeated cycles. Doctors say this shorter version of the seasonal flu was noticed during the initial H1N1 scare. Thirty-two-year-old Geeta Sharma, an executive …
Mumbai The state health department will seek 2,500 doses of H1N1 vaccines from the Centre for the immunisation of healthcare professionals exposed to the virus. The professionals had expressed concerns about the vaccine
Vadodara/Rajkot: Swine flu claimed two more lives in the city on Tuesday, while a 40-year-old woman lost her life due to the pandemic in Rajkot. The first victim in Vadodara was SK Bhatnagar, who was admitted to a private hospital, and died early on Tuesday morning while Suresh Patel died …
At a hearing here at the Council of Europe, a European Union human rights watchdog, the World Health Organisation (WHO) denied on Tuesday that it was unduly influenced by drug companies to exaggerate the dangers of the H1N1 flu virus. Pharmaceutical firms picked up multi-million dollar vaccination contracts when the …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is planning to review its response to H1N1 once the pandemic is over. Several European countries have accused it of exaggeration. With the world nervously watching the spread of the deadly H5N1 bird flu, which only sporadically infects humans but kills over half of those …
Vadodara/Rajkot: Two died of swine flu in Vadodara and Rajkot on Wednesday. A 49-year-old assistant manager with a nationalised bank became the 16th person to succumb to swine flu in Vadodara on Wednesday. Hitendra Parmar was admitted to SSG Hospital on Monday. A resident of Harni-Warasiya Ring Road, he used …
NEW DELHI: The number of swine flu cases in the Capital has been registering a steady decline for a week now and doctors in the city say the fall in numbers will stay for some time.
