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 Centre has banned the manufacture and sale of serodiagnostic kits for tuberculosis. A notification issued by the Joint Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Arun Panda on June 7 states that serodiagnostic test kits have led to imprecise results and inconsistent diagnosis of TB, leading to risk to …
Pneumonia and diarrhea are the two leading causes of infant mortality, together accounting for nearly one-third of all deaths among children under 5 around the world. This amounts to more than 2 million lives lost each year. Both diseases are easily preventable and curable, a new United Nations Children's Fund …
NEW YORK, 8 JUNE: Scaling up simple interventions to control diarrhoea and pneumonia can save more than two million children in poor and developing countries, including India where over six lakh kids under five years die every year due to the two preventable diseases, a Unicef report said today. According …
The Madras High Court has upheld the validity of a notification issued by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on March 16 last year banning the manufacture, sale and distribution of Gatifloxacin, a drug used for treating acute bacterial exacerbation of chronic bronchitis, acute sinusitis and community acquired …
Giving zinc as a supplement along with antibiotics can significantly reduce mortality by lowering treatment failure in children suffering from serious infections such as pneumonia and meningitis, according to a study. The study, reported in the latest issue of the international medical journal, The Lancet , has found that babies …
The latest UNICEF report presents a hard-hitting view of the condition of poor children in urban areas. COMPARISONS between and studies of living conditions in rural and urban India are aplenty, though disaggregated data on the specific deprivations confronting populations in urban centres are not all that easy to find. …
The objective of this study was to explore the policies for, and implementation of, the community case management (CCM) of childhood illnesses in the 68 countries that were prioritized by the “Countdown to 2015” initiative in 2008.
It has been 35 years since 1977, when the world observed the last recorded case of naturally occurring smallpox. We had finally defeated a disease that had devastated mankind for centuries. It was a critical victory for the many doctors, scientists and health workers who laboured tirelessly to eradicate this …
As both a doctor and a public health professional, I am transfixed by one compelling question: Why are public health issues and debates so often limited to just doctors and those with abbreviations like MBBS, MD, MS or MPH added to their names? Does the ambit of health not extend …
About 450 million children will be physically and mentally stunted over the next 15 years unless the world takes action to tackle malnutrition, a report from Save the Children warned Wednesday. Every hour, 300 children die due to a lack of nutrients in their diet, while those who survive are …
After 4,000 deaths and 19,000 victims over seven years, encephalitis has made it to the election manifestoes of most parties in Uttar Pradesh in 2012. On ground zero in eastern Uttar Pradesh, however, it is still to figure in the candidates’ campaign. Voters are angry and frustrated but say they …
KOLKATA, 30 JAN: With the recent crib deaths in state-run hospitals causing widespread public anger, the state health department is now blaming socio-economic factors for the high level of infant mortalities. According to senior health officials, many pregnant women in Malda ~ the district that has been the epicentre of …
PESHAWAR, Nov 30: The World Health Organisation (WHO) plans to set up the acute respiratory infection (ARI) centres in 11 more districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to provide treatment to the children suffering from cold-related diseases, it is learnt. Ten such centres are operational in Dir, Battagram, Haripur, Swat, Buner, Shangla, …
Medical experts have said that pneumonia kills nearly two million children every year in the world under the age of five, while in Pakistan, one in every four children deaths are attributable to the disease. More than 150 million cases of pneumonia report every year among children under five in …
Pneumonia killed more children than any other disease in 2008, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). This report examines steps being taken to prevent this illness in the 15 countries with the highest pneumonia death toll among young children. Together, these countries account for approximately 75 percent of the …
Even as the number of crib deaths reported from the state-run Dr. B.C. Roy Postgraduate Institute of Paediatric Science since Tuesday has risen to 13 (with one baby dying on Thursday), the Health authorities said there were no instances of medical negligence. Those who died were all very vulnerable and …
Tiered pricing - the concept of selling drugs and vaccines in developing countries at prices systematically lower than in industrialized countries - has received widespread support from industry, policymakers, civil society, and academics as a way to improve access to medicines for the poor. We carried out case studies based …
New Delhi: India might have vehemently opposed an antibiotic-resistant superbug being named New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase 1 (NDM1), but a study in a leading city hospital has found a worryingly high prevalence of the deadly gene. According to a study carried out in the ICU and wards of Sir Ganga Ram …
Igor Rudan and colleagues report the results of their consensus building exercise that identified health research priorities to help reduce child mortality from pneumonia.
The number of young children who die each day has plunged over the past two decades, new United Nations figures show, but the world is still lagging far behind in efforts to achieve its target for reducing child mortality. Child mortality rates are dropping in every region of the world, …
