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. …
New Delhi: A vaccine against typhoid, that not only protected those vaccinated but also people around them, has passed the test in India. The inexpensive vaccine against typhoid fever offers protection across age groups, particularly in pre-school-age children. A study conducted in the slums of Kolkata has also shown that …
Big pharma companies are already working on an H1N1 swine flu vaccine (Bloomberg) Even as the number of swine flu victims cross 100 in the country, Indian pharmaceutical companies are yet to start manufacturing the much-awaited vaccine as they have not received any purchase commitment from the government. Last week, …
Hyderabad, July 19: Five children were rushed to Yashoda Hospital in Somajiguda after being administered anti-typhoid vaccines by a service organisation on Sunday. According to doctors and parents, the children were administered vaccines in
Health Department Director Dr K.Shylaja has said that the Japanese encephalitis (Japan fever) vaccination is perfectly safe and that it has not caused any side-effects as was reported. A teenage girl, Athira, 15, who had been admitted to the Medical College Hospital here after she complained of giddiness post-vaccination, had …
Swine flu cases cross 250 mark On a day when the UK warned its people of 65,000 possible swine flu deaths this winter, India said it was doing well to contain the spread of the virus.
Over 90L Children Will Be Administered Jab Between 2009-11 Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: A single shot will soon protect children against five diseases. The health ministry will soon take the proposal to introduce a pentavalent vaccine (5X1) in its national immunization programme to the Cabinet for final approval. …
The closure of all the three government-run vaccine manufacturing units in the country in January 2008 has had a major implication on the immunisation programme of the country in 2008-2009. Not only has there been a shortfall of vaccine, the government target achieved has been far less than what was …
India is reeling from a debilitating shortage of vaccines, which has severely affected the universal immunization programme reveals the latest report in Down To Earth (DTE). Is based on response to an RTI application filed by DTE that revealed how a plan to promote private vaccine makers boomeranged. See Also …
Down To Earth filed an RTI application to find out the reason of vaccine shortage in India. The response revealed how a plan to promote private vaccine makers boomeranged. The health ministry was forced to get vaccines illegally from the very public sector manufacturers it suspended last year Shuvam Kumar …
Official admission In December 2008, a team of health ministry officials toured 13 states to review the National Rural Health Mission. They found, among other things, hospitals in Bihar did not have vaccines for diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus. The review also reported shortages in Assam, where measles vaccine was …
cyrus s poonawalla, chairperson and managing director of Serum Institute of India Ltd, a private vaccine manufacturer, says the vaccine shortage is a mess the government created. Edited excerpts: On self-sufficiency: Except for polio vaccine, we can provide all vaccines required for the Universal Immunization Programme. Whatever orders were placed …
SHILLONG: The State Government has procured 30,000 vaccines from Croatia for the ongoing mass vaccination against meningococcal meningitis that has reportedly claimed 257 lives in Meghalaya in 2008-09. With 30,000 more vaccines, about three lakh people will be vaccinated against the disease. Out of the 257 meningitis deaths so far, …
The Sri Lankan Health officials have decided to administer Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine for all the children in the country. The Epidemic Disease Unit of Sri Lanka Health Ministry confirmed that they have taken this decision after considering the growing number of mosquito-borne Japanese encephalitis cases in the country. Earlier the …
US-BASED vaccine maker Novavax, that is developing a vaccine for Swine Flu, will conduct a major portion of the clinical trials in India. The trials will be conducted from September in joint collaboration with Ahmedabadbased drug major Cadila Pharmaceuticals. Talking to ET, Rahul Singhvi president & CEO Novavax said:
