The number of deaths among children under the age of five has reduced by half since 1990. Yet over 5 million children are still dying every year from mostly preventable causes. Pneumonia is responsible for nearly 20% of these deaths and is the leading infectious cause of death in this …
The Lancet presents the most recent update on the global, regional, and national causes of death. Against a backdrop of increased global improvements in life-expectancy, death rates for some causes – including drug use and liver cancer – continue to rise. Up-to-date evidence on levels and trends for age-sex-specific all-cause …
Nearly 300 children have died this year in desert communities in southern Pakistan, officials said yesterday, as poor monsoon rains and livestock diseases have combined to worsen malnutrition. The Thar desert, straddling the Indian border and one of Pakistan's poorest areas, has seen an alarming number of children suffering pneumonia …
WaterAid India (WAI) welcomes the high level political commitments of the Prime Minister on 15 August 2014 of setting 2019 as a goal to achieve universal access to sanitation. In an effort to support this renewed emphasis on ending sanitation crisis in India and also as a committed sector actor, …
Ado Ekiti — About 231,000 Nigerian children under the age of five die annually of pneumonia and diarrhoea, the Justice, Development and Peace Initiative (JDPI) has said. Programme Officer, Water and Sanitation Department of the organisation, Mr. Bamikole Adegbite, stated this yesterday at St. Joseph Catholic Nursery Primary School, Ajilosun, …
KATHMANDU, Oct 8: Children across the country will be immunized with three new vaccines within the current fiscal year, thanks to the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) that has included additional shots in the regular immunization list. Child Health Division (CHD) under the Department of Health Services (DoHS) stated …
The objective of the study was to estimate the impact on maternal and child mortality after eliminating user fees for pregnant women and for children less than five years of age in Burkina Faso.
GURGAON: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has allocated $450,000 for health projects in Haryana. Speaking at a three-day workshop in city on 'Implementation Research proposal development', Rakesh Gupta, mission director, National Health Mission, Haryana, said that some of the projects address the burning issues in state like implementation of community …
Streptococcus pneumoniae is carried asymptomatically in the nasopharyngeal tract. However, it is capable of causing multiple diseases, including pneumonia, bacteraemia and meningitis, which are common causes of morbidity and mortality in young children. Antibiotic treatment has become more difficult, especially that involving the group of beta-lactam antibiotics where resistance has …
With an aim to reduce under five mortality rate, the Union health ministry is all set to introduce Pentavalent vaccine in the National Immunisation programme in 11 high burden states. The move will reduce the injection load as a single shot of the vaccine has antigens of five diseases — …
Large scale, indiscriminate use of antibiotics in the poultry industry has led to antibiotic resistance in Indians who are falling prey to many otherwise curable ailments, said a new study released here Wednesday. The study by the Centre for Science and Environment's (CSE) Pollution Monitoring Lab, which tested 70 chicken …
Claiming that it found several antibiotic residues in chickens tested in Delhi-NCR region, an environment body on Wednesday said "large-scale and indiscriminate" use of antibiotics in poultry industry might be "strongly linked" to growing antibiotic resistance in Indians. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) also sought implementation of a …
Each time you eat chicken, you could also be consuming a cocktail of antibiotics. A lab study released by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) found antibiotic residues in 40% of chicken samples bought from outlets in Delhi and NCR. While the amount of antibiotics found in each sample was …
Seventy chicken samples from Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR), tested by the Centre for Science and Environment, were found to be carrying traces of five antibiotics. Largescale misuse and overuse of antibiotics in chicken has lead to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in chicken itself. The CSE report …
HYDERABAD: It’s official! At least 40 per cent of policemen including law and order, traffic and other wings in Cyberabad and Hyderabad Police Commissionerates are suffering from severe health hazards, according to a study conducted recently. The policemen are suffering from BP, diabetes and other lung-related problems like pneumonia and …
Tulasipur (Dang), July 13: Number of patients suffering from different diseases has increased in the district for the few days. According to the government hospitals in the district—Rapti Sub-Regional Hospital, Ghorahi, and Rapti Zonal Hospital, Tulasipur—number of patients suffering from different diseases including fever, typhoid, pneumonia, vomiting, and cold and …
UN urges final push on global targets that have shown little improvement, notably those related to women and children. Achieving global targets to reduce maternal and child deaths and increase access to improved sanitation facilities by 2015 is "slipping away", despite significant progress in the past 14 years, the UN …
The Ministry for National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination on Wednesday launched a comprehensive Multi Year Strategic Plan for Immunisation (cMYP) 2014-2018 on child immunisation. This comprehensive plan is a part of the wider commitment for saving lives through immunisation, said Minister of National Health Services, Regulations & Coordination Saira …
In a double-blind randomized controlled trial, Xavier Saez-Llorens and colleagues examine the vaccine efficacy of PHiD-CV against community-acquired pneumonia in young children in Panama, Argentina, and Colombia.
Doctors said the virus manifests itself much stronger in adults, with longer episodes of the disease, than in children. Cases of chicken pox are on the rise in the capital, with nearly 300 cases already reported. The MCD’s Maharishi Valmiki Infectious Disease (MVID) hospital has confirmed the death of one …
NIGERIANS are now living longer by eight years even as coronary (ischaemic) heart disease, lower respiratory infections (such as pneumonia) and stroke top the list of 20 major causes of premature deaths globally. According to the World Health Statistics 2014 published at the weekend by the World Health Organisation (WHO), …
