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. …
A single-dose H1N1 swine flu vaccine may be ready soon. Contrary to expectations, the vaccine against H1N1 may not be multi-dose, as results from a pilot study of a Novartis H1N1 candidate vaccine have revealed a strong immune response after just one shot. The vaccine might be used in trials …
Five million doses of Panflu.1 before October 1 BEIJING/ Barcelona: China on Thursday approved the A(H1N1) flu vaccine produced by domestic pharmaceutical company Sinovac, making it the first to get a production license in the global race. The State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) issued the license for Sinovac
The health ministry has introduced an additional vaccine to protect infants against pneumonia, one of the leading causes of death in children under 15 years in Bhutan, and meningitis.
New Delhi: India will vaccinate 20 lakh healthcare and emergency services personnel against the deadly H1N1 virus by the end of January using an imported swine flu vaccine. The health ministry has set aside Rs 100 crore as an interim budget to purchase these vaccines from any one of the …
THE government has decided to let Anglo-American drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) conduct human trials of its swine flu vaccine here to make it available for patients by the year-end, director-general health services (DGHS) Dr RK Srivastava said. The vaccine is likely to be launched in India by December 2009 if the …
Atiq Khan LUCKNOW: The dance of death continues in the eastern districts (Purvanchal region) of Uttar Pradesh. The dreaded acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) has so far killed 199. The victims are mostly children and people below the poverty line. This comes at a time when the Japanese Encephalitis (JE) appears …
A NEW vaccine, a dry powder that can be inhaled directly into the lungs, has offered hope of saving about 10 per cent of the nearly two lakh children who die of measles and related complications in India every year. The new vaccine, developed by Robert Sievers of Colorado University, …
Much of the so-called problems in the polio eradication programme in India pointed out by Rajib Dasgupta (EPW, 20 June 2009) have been known for years. At the same time, the article is silent about several critical issues. It is necessary to take cognisance of the larger political economy of …
Although the first batch of swine flu vaccines are supposed to be ready and licenced by October, most healthcare workers do not want to be the first to be vaccinated. The reason behind the reluctance is the 1976 swine flu fiasco in the US when the vaccine supposedly killed 25 …
Although the first batch of swine flu vaccines are supposed to be ready and licenced by October, most healthcare workers do not want to be the first to be vaccinated. The reason behind the reluctance is the 1976 swine flu fiasco in the US when the vaccine supposedly killed 25 …
Pune Measles and related complications claim the lives of nearly two lakh children a year in India. Now, a new inhalable vaccine, in the form of dry powder, has been developed and the city-based Serum Institute of India will conduct its human trials. Dr SS Jadhav, executive director of Serum …
Up to 90,000 deaths from swine flu in the United States, mostly among children and young people? Up to 1.8 million people hospitalized, with 50 percent to 100 percent of the intensive-care beds in some cities filled with swine flu patients? Up to half the population infected by this winter? …
New Delhi: Every year, a large number of children get vaccinated for diseases like pertussis, tuberculosis, hepatitis B, measles etc as part of the national immunization programme. But very few of them go on to complete the full course losing track of further booster doses that are administered at 10 …
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 …
As the August 7 clinical trials of an H1N1 vaccine in the US have found it to be safe, the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has announced two trials involving children. The decision was taken after the Safety Monitoring Committee recommended on August 18 that trials of …
With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressing concern over the re-emergence of polio cases in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday cleared implementation of the polio eradication strategy for three years till 2012 at an estimated expenditure of Rs 3,203.98 crore. Stating that the …
Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary is gearing up for a possible anthrax attack as a rhino calf is suspected to have died of the disease yesterday. The worried Jaldapara authorities have written to Calcutta to send anthrax vaccines as well as tranquillisers for big animals like elephants and rhinos. There is also …
