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. …
Guidelines Only Up To Pre-Clinical Stage THE department of biotechnology (DBT) is planning to set up National Biotechnology Regulatory Board to specify and regulate development of drugs and vaccines from natural sources, such as humans, animals or micro-organism, a DBT official said.
NEW DELHI: The suspension order on vaccine manufacturing on three crucial public sector suppliers has the country reeling from a debilitating shortage of vaccines severely affecting its universal immunisation programme, the Centre for Science and Environment has said.
CHANDIGARH: Haryana has been able to curb the foot and mouth disease of animals to a large extent as no outbreak has been reported in the last four years, an official spokesman said here on Saturday. He said the incidence of other diseases among animals had also reduced due to …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The mass vaccination programme against Japanese encephalitis will be organised in the district from July 15 to August 5. Vaccination will be given to children aged between one and 15 years. By taking vaccination, a child can be provided lifelong protection from the disease. Thiruvananthapuram is the only district …
In a setback for Novartis AG, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration asked the Swiss drug maker for more information about its meningitis-vaccine candidate, Menveo, with respect to patients between ages 11 and 55. "The FDA has requested additional information mainly on the manufacturing of the drug, but it didn't …
While many a parents have expressed reservation about Japanese Encephalitis (JE) vaccination being administered to children in the age group of 1-15 years in the State, the Directorate of Health Services on the other hand has claimed that there is nothing to worry about and vaccination is very
Ranchi Veterinary College under Birsa Agriculture University (BAU), Ranchi, has issued public notices asking farmers across the state to get their cattle vaccinated against swine fever after deaths of pigs were reported from Jharkhand and Bihar.
LUCKNOW: The crippling polio virus has inched closer to elimination in Uttar Pradesh. The fact was celebrated by the 20th India Expert Advisory Group (IEAG) meeting held last week. Key messages circulated during the meeting said that there was only one family of type-1 polio virus circulating in the endemic …
Thousands of children below the age of five years were today administered life-saving anti-polio drops at 8,200 polio booths across the Capital. Reiterating the goal of eradicating polio from Delhi, health minister Kiran Walia urged everyone to work towards keeping polio virus out of the state and the neighbouring areas.
New Delhi: The long-pending proposal to introduce pentavalent vaccine in the National Immunisation Programme is likely to take off soon. The plan has already been cleared by the Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) and will be put up before the Cabinet soon. The proposal hit the wall after former Union Health …
...But Indian Govt Still To Place Orders THE first vaccine against the swine flu is likely to be globally available by August. Australia-based biopharmaceutical company CSL is all set to become the first company in the world to develop and manufacture a vaccine against the H1N1 virus and expects it …
THE government may soon bring in a national policy on vaccines that will create a separate vaccine regulatory authority and also reserve the right to manufacture vaccines for the national immunisation programme with public sector undertakings (PSUs). The ministry of health and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) are …
Shastry V. Mallady MADURAI: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has initiated steps to produce an indigenous vaccine for the A(H1N1) influenza and it expects the vaccine to be available in four to six months at affordable rates.
TEENA THACKER & SAMUDRA GUPTA KASHYAP NEW DELHI/GUWAHATI: For the first time ever, India has confirmed two separate cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV). The cases have been reported in a four-year-old boy in Assam
Adam Halliday Posted: Saturday , Jun 06, 2009 at 0241 hrs IST NANDOL (GANDHINAGAR): There is still no palpable fear in Nandol village of Gandhinagar district, officially declared as Anthrax-hit this week. Unaware of the fatal nature of the blight, the residents sit and watch veterinarians in protective gear going …
Japanese encephalitis vaccination campaign in Lakhimpur district concluded after achieving 95.44 per cent of the target. The campaign, which kicked off in Lakhimpur early this month, was extended in which 3, 15, 495 children between the age group of 1 to 15 years were vaccinated throughout the district in 1,522 …
