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. …
Researchers have developed a new oral diarrhoea vaccine which in a clinical phase I-study has shown promising results to combat the disease that kills 300,000 children per year in the developing world.Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) bacteria are the primary cause of diarrhoea in children.There is no ETEC vaccine available on …
ALLAHABAD: When it comes to scripting success stories in terms of vaccinating children, Allahabad district tops the chart among all other 23 districts of the state with a record of administering over 10.7 lakh children with anti-measles vaccine. The final round of Measles Catch-up Campaign brought smiles on the faces …
After bandying its Rs 6,000-crore a year scheme to provide free generic drugs at government health centres and hospitals for a year, the health ministry has now shelved the plan. The reasons are financial constraints and its inability to get in place a drug procurement policy in the last 18 …
With the only government-run production unit for yellow fever vaccine in Kasauli out of order for nearly two years, most authorised vaccine centres in the country are fast running out of stock. This has prompted the Ministry of Health to issue advisories allowing prospective travellers to purchase the vaccine from …
India on Tuesday unveiled its first breakthrough vaccine for severe rotavirus diarrhoea, which kills more than 1 lakh children under five in the country every year. Billed as India’s first social innovation and novel vaccine development project, the locally made affordable vaccine—Rotavac—is likely to be launched in the first quarter …
Hyderabad: With only five per cent of injections used for immunisation and the remaining 95 per cent for therapeutic use, children are often subjected to unnecessary injections, say paediatricians of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics. The association has asked doctors to refrain from giving too many injections as the World …
India's success in eliminating wild polioviruses (WPVs) has been acclaimed globally. Since the last case on January 13, 2011 success has been sustained for two years. By early 2014 India could be certified free of WPV transmission, if no indigenous transmission occurs, the chances of which is considered zero. Until …
The Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan 2013–2018 is a comprehensive, long-term strategy that addresses what is needed to deliver a polio-free world by 2018. The plan was developed by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in consultation with national health authorities, global health initiatives, scientific experts, donors and other …
London: The world’s first vaccine to help control symptoms of autism has been developed. The vaccine was created by Canada’s University of Guelph researchers for gut bacteria common in autistic children which will help control symptoms of autism. More than 90% of children with autism spectrum disorders suffer from chronic …
A 25-year, US$10-billion global effort has taken the number of polio cases from hundreds of thousands per year to just hundreds, but it is now struggling to stamp the virus out of its final strongholds in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria, where transmission has never been interrupted. Of these, Nigeria was …
A new global plan aims to end most cases of polio by late next year, and essentially eradicate the paralyzing disease by 2018 if authorities can raise the $5.5 billion needed to do the work, health officials said. Part of the challenge will be increasing security for vaccine workers who …
Scientists have tracked the earliest days of a man’s robust immune response to HIV which may lead to a potential new vaccine for the deadly virus. The research team, led by Barton F Haynes from Duke Human Vaccine Institute and John Mascola of the NIH Vaccine Research Center, has for …
Measles outbreak in a nomad family has claimed five lives including a teenage girl and four minor girls in Adda Bhoondi area near Rahim Yar Khan. Six more children are said to have been suffering high fever due to the contagion. The dead are identified as two and half-year-old Rashida, …
London: The world’s most advanced potential malaria vaccine, which looked effective enough to hit the market by 2015, has failed to live up to its promise. Scientists from Oxford University who tested the vaccine — RTS,S — in its final leg said on Thursday that its effectiveness wanes over time, …
INDORE: Madhya Pradesh government is all set to introduce a 'controversial' vaccine whose efficacy is still being debated in the country and elsewhere as some deaths of children were reported after they were administered the vaccine. Much against caution by experts', Madhya Pradesh is mulling to launch pentavalent vaccine in …
Apart from major seasonal diseases like malaria, dengue and chikungunya, H1N1 or commonly known as swine flu poses a new challenge to the government with the evolution of its virus changing every year, leading to uncertainties in its outbreak. The government has not been able to take a call on …
As of the end of February, 151 cases of Measles had been confirmed in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, with two deaths caused by the highly contagious disease, Yunnan.cn, an official news portal in the province, reported on Tuesday. To contain the spread of the disease, Kunming on Wednesday will …
The Coimbatore district has achieved a total coverage of 98.36 per cent during the second phase of the pulse polio programme on Sunday. According to Deputy Director of Health Services R. Damodharan, of the targeted 3,31,450 children in the age group of 0 to 5 years, oral polio vaccine was …
New Delhi: Two more people have died of swine flu in the city on Friday, taking the H1N1 toll to seven this year. The Delhi health department said the victims, both middle-aged, were hospitalized last week and died due to severe complications caused by the viral infection. Another death was …
NEW DELHI: A 15-year-old girl from Patel Nagar, west Delhi has become the latest victim of swine flu in the capital. The teenager, who was admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on February 3, died due to multi-organ failure caused by the influenza virus infection, said a health department official. …
