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. …
Radha Sharma | TNN Ahmedabad: Man-made disaster sparked by blatant reuse of contaminated injections, syringes and needles was the prime reason for the high incidence of viral hepatitis-B recorded in 2009 which grew to 19 per 1 lakh population in the state from 17 per lakh population in 2008. The …
Jab Against Hepatitis & TB Leaves 4 Dead, 74 Disabled Michael Sheridian For Wang Mingliang, the birth of a son should have been start of a season of joy in his village at the rural heart of north China. But his little boy, Xiao
More than 160 persons in the state capital have tested positive for hepatitis E --- a liver problem caused by consumption of water contaminated by sewerage --- since the outbreak of the disease in mid-January, according to officials.
It is pretty nigh impossible to take Varaprasad Reddy out for a meal. Friends have tried. So has Alain Merieux, chairman of the venerable French pharmaceuticals company M
Alarmed by the spiralling number of Hepatitis B cases, the Hepatitis Foundation of Tripura (HFT), a voluntary organisation has envisaged an ambitious Statewide plan
A new technique of blood testing that substantially reduces the time taken to detect the hepatitis-B, hepatitis-C and HIV viruses is gaining favour in the country
GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals (GSK) recently cut a deal with the Brazilian government, which allows it to supply a 10-valent vaccine against childhood pneumonia and other life-threatening infections for a decade at a fixed price in a reflection of the growing importance of vaccines and emerging markets to Big Pharma. The contract, …
LUCKNOW: Epidemiological studies show that 1-2% of the total Indian population is a carrier of Hepatitis B. This makes a large chunk of these carriers vulnerable to cirrhosis and cancers of liver. Transplant is perhaps the only way to save these lives. These facts were shared by Dr M Rela, …
Twelve million people in Pakistan are suffering from Hepatitis, a private TV channel quoted Pakistan Medical Research Council (PMRC) Executive Director Huma Qureshi as saying on Wednesday. She said the first-ever survey on Hepatitis had been conducted across the country in 2008. Fifty thousand people had been tested in the …
Twelve million people in Pakistan are suffering from Hepatitis, a private TV channel quoted Pakistan Medical Research Council (PMRC) Executive Director Huma Qureshi as saying on Wednesday. She said the first-ever survey on Hepatitis had been conducted across the country in 2008. Fifty thousand people had been tested in the …
THANKS to some mindless frenzy whipped up by the media, we are terribly concerned about swine flu, because deaths in double digits have been recorded in a country of a billion people. One wonders why the press has never been even mildly vociferous about the pathetic hygiene standards of our …
Human trials of the first hepatitis C vaccine have begun at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Boston in July. Unlike hepatitis A and B, there is no vaccination yet for hepatitis C. It is a deadly virus against which we can do little except prevent infection. Currently, it …
The objective of this study is to evaluate the performance of domestic water purification units with respect to contaminating enteric viruses. Eight domestic water purification systems widely used in India were evaluated using hepatitis E virus (HEV) as a model virus.
GANDHINAGAR: The government has admitted in state Assembly that 93 deaths have been reported because of hepatitis-B in Sabarkantha district. It also informed the House that the disease spread through multiple use of syringes. Over 500 cases of hepatitis-B were also reported from the district, said health and family welfare …
To the 2-drug team to combat the virus deadlier than HIV THE Hepatitis C virus has infected over 170 million people worldwide which is four times the number of hiv infected people. India, alone, has three million cases. The existing treatment is a combination of two drugs: interferon and ribavirin, …
Hyderabad: As many as 5,426 cases of acute diarrhoea, including 21 deaths, were reported in Hyderabad, Adilabad, Karimnagar, Mahbubnagar, Visakhapatnam, Kurnool, Kadapa, East Godavari, Warangal and Medak. Hyderabad stood on top with 1,197 cases. The total number of acute diarrhoea cases was 3,901 during the corresponding period last year, a …
Consumption of highly contaminated and toxic water of Manchhar Lake continue to spread gastroenteritis, diarrhoea, tuberculosis, hepatitis B, C and typhoid among fishermen and their families living in the lake
The Central College in Eheliyagoda, Ratnapura has been closed until further notice due to a hepatitis scare. According to the sources nearly 25 school children and several teachers in Eheliyagoda Central College have been admitted to Awissawella hospital due to the suspected hepatitis. However their condition is not critical, hospital …
