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. …
The Health department has called a meeting to review the measures in place to counter the steadily increasing cases of swine flu. The meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday. Health Minister Dr A K Walia said epidemiologists from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), representatives of laboratories authorised to …
20 deaths reported since January 13 Worried over the rising number of deaths due to swine flu this year, Punjab has put a formal query to the National Centre for Disease Control on the possibility of a change in the causative virus. Swine flu has claimed 20 lives in the …
Directorate Of Health Services Admits More Deaths In Reply To Paediatrician’s RTI The directorate of health services (DHS), which has been defending the administration of the pentavalent vaccine, has admitted that four infants had died within a week of administering the vaccine in the state till June 2012. The admission …
Islamic Development Bank has approved $251 million loan for Pakistan’s polio eradication programme following the donor agencies’ refusal to offer funding, according to the relevant officials. The $300 million programme, which is for 2013-15, seeks complete vaccination of children to ensure eradication of the crippling disease in the next three …
BHOPAL: Irrespective of their immunisation status, about one lakh children under age of 10 in Bhopal would be immunized against measles, according to health officials. A month-long measles vaccination campaign would begin on Friday. According to annual health survey (AHS) 2011, measles vaccine coverage in Bhopal is about 70%. Some …
American population will experience earlier and more severe flu seasons prompted by climate change, a new research has warned. Scientists led by Sherry Towers, research professor in the Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center at Arizona State University, studied waves of influenza and climate patterns in the US from the …
SHIKARPUR, Jan 24: At least 14 more children have died of measles over the past four days in different urban and rural areas of Shikarpur district, taking the measles toll within the past seven days to 26. As many as a dozen children fell prey to measles on Friday and …
Kyasanur forest disease (KFD), a tick-borne viral disease with hemorrhagic manifestations, is localised in five districts of Karnataka state, India. Annual rounds of vaccination using formalin inactivated tissue-culture vaccine have been conducted in the region since 1990. Two doses of vaccine are administered to individuals aged 7–65 years at an …
Cyrus Poonawalla?s Serum Institute of India to enter injectable polio vaccine market, undercut Glaxo Billionaire Cyrus Poonawalla, founder of the world’s biggest maker of vaccines, will slash the price of polio immunisation and introduce shots for diarrhea and pneumonia, undercutting Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Poonawalla, who set up the Serum …
The Maha Kumbh Mela, considered the largest public gathering in the world, will be the subject of a case study at Harvard University, which will study the logistics and economics behind it and the “pop-up mega-city” that comes to life in Allahabad during the religious event. A team of faculty …
Vaccine Vial Monitors to allay apprehensions of public regarding the dosage’s potency A total of 3.39 lakh children in the age group of zero to five years have been targeted in Coimbatore district during the first phase of 18{+t}{+h}annual Pulse Polio Programme on Sunday (January 20). To allay public apprehensions …
Six more children died of measles in different villages of Dadu district on Tuesday as people continued to wait for the health department’s vaccination teams, supposed to be sent to the areas affected by the outbreak, for a couple of months. The new victims have been identified as three-year-old Munir …
Delhi-based biotechnology company Panacea Biotec is awaiting a nod from the World Health Organization (WHO) to resume supplying vaccines for the world immunisation programme from its units at Lalru (Haryana) and Baddi (Himachal Pradesh). Speaking to Business Standard, a senior company official said, “We expect WHO officials to visit our …
Cholera reappeared in Haiti in October, 2010 after decades of absence. Cases were first detected in Artibonite region and in the ensuing months the disease spread to every department in the country. The rate of increase in the number of cases at the start of epidemics provides valuable information about …
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre on a public interest writ petition against licensing of and trials with the unproven human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines, ostensibly to treat cervical cancer. The petition, by Kalpana Mehta and other health activists, cited the Drugs Controller-General of India (DCGI), the …
The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Centre’s response on a PIL accusing multinational pharma giant Glaxo Smithkline of having conducted unauthorised trials of its cancer vaccine on tribal girls. A bench headed by Justice KS Radhakrishnan, while seeking reply from the health ministry, also directed the Christian Medical College, …
KARACHI – The World Health Organisation has announced that it is starting a large measles vaccination campaign targeting 2.9 million children in eight districts of Sindh as an emergency response to the outbreak in the province. Figures collected from various official sources and surveys provide evidence of the current outbreak …
The Awami National Party-led provincial government has completed development projects worth Rs229 million in livestock and dairy development sector during last four and a half years in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Provincial Minister for Livestock and Cooperatives Hidayatullah Khan claimed this while briefing media persons about performance of his department. He said …
Direct cash transfers may curb migration among those who need to be at their native place to benefit from cash transfer The country’s poor are bracing for what is dubbed as a potential game changer in the delivery of development. To monetise its support for the poor, the government has …
