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 polio vaccination strategy suggested Tribune News Service New Delhi, October 23 The Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP), the premier association of pediatricians in India, has expressed deep concern over increase in the number of polio cases in the country and has recommended a new vaccination strategy in immunization schedule …
A day after four infants died immediately after being administered measles vaccine in Baska district of lower Assam, the state government has dismissed allegations that the deaths were caused by the vaccine.
A newer vaccine that targets the most common form of the polio virus works up to four times better than the conventional vaccine that tries to protect against all three types of the crippling disease, researchers said on Wednesday. The so-called monovalent vaccine may help speed the fight to eradicate …
Busienss Standard / New Delhi October 16, 2008, 0:14 IST The selective ban imposed by the US on the export of vaccines for bird flu and some other common viruses (selective because it is applicable to just a few countries) defies logic, and is a case of mixing politics with …
Who will benefit from globally promoted pneumonia vaccine? the pneumonia vaccine that the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, a public-private coalition, and who are promoting in developing countries is expensive, inefficient and causes serious side-effects, contends a letter published in a public health journal. In a letter to the …
Lucknow, September 24 A stock of 4.6 lakh vaccines for Japanese Encephalitis (JE) has lost potency due to a fault in maintenance of the cold chain at the Government Medical Store Depot (GMSD) in Karnal, a Health Ministry probe has revealed.
By Dr Gopal Dabade The WHO should be an honest broker between the needs of the public and vaccine manufacturers. The term vaccine was coined by Edward Jenner, during 1796, when he observed that the milk-maid did not acquire small-pox as she was having protection and further he realised that …
The federal government is introducing new vaccines to safeguard children against influenza in addition to diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), hepatitis and tetanus. The government had imported the new vaccines that would be launched after training of the vaccination staff in all the provinces, officials said.
Mumbai: Inspite of the best efforts of the Drugs Controller General of India Surinder Singh, the Union government has instructed the closure of the BCG Vaccine Lab at Chennai. While the assets and technology of the 60-year-old unit are to be transferred to Hindustan Latex, the government is proposing to …
100-Odd Families Lift 30-Yr-Old Self-Imposed Ban Ending their 30-year-long hiatus, 100 out of 124 families of the Muslim-dominated Karamat Ki Chowki in Kareli have accepted anti-polio vaccination for their wards. Buoyed by the change of heart, the health department has organised three vaccination camps in the area in the last …
Joe C Mathew / New Delhi September 18, 2008, 0:04 IST The World Health Organization (WHO) has not approved any new vaccine from India this year as the Indian regulatory system, which gives manufacturing licences for domestic vaccines, has failed to meet its quality benchmarks. Companies like Shanta Biotech, Panacea …
LUCKNOW, SEPTEMBER 14 After an inspection, experts have found that a large number of vaccine vial monitors (VVM, which is the potency indicator) on Japanese Encephalitis vaccine stored at the Government Medical Store Depot (GMSD), Karnal in Haryana, have reached stage 2 of exposure to heat. The implication is that …
Joe C Mathew / New Delhi September 12, 2008, 0:23 IST An expert committee of the health ministry which looked into reviving three government vaccine units that were closed down has recommended converting two of these units into centres for producing yellow fever vaccine capable of serving global needs. The …
R. PRASAD High cost to treat cancer engenders willingness to pay for vaccine A formative study was completed recently to understand the various facets of the society and health systems prior to introducing a vaccine that can prevent Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection that is responsible for causing cervical cancer in …
How would you react if you were told that your child had contracted a lifelong ailment because of the side-effects of a vaccine that is part of the government's immunisation programme? And what if it's discovered that the vaccine didn't even offer protection in the first place against the disease …
Rema Nagarajan | TIG If a disease can be treated for Rs 10, why would you spend Rs 12,000 for it? That is the question being raised by some doctors on a move to make a vaccine against pneumonia part of the immunisation programme. According to WHO protocol, pneumonia in …
Rajahmundry, Sept. 5: In an effort to ensure coverage of all children in the age group of zero to five years in the pulse polio immunisation drive, health authorities are targeting high risk areas where the children often left uncovered in the immunisation drive to administer the vaccine in East …
State To Undertake Massive Vaccination Drive, Asks Centre For 1L Vials Of Vaccine Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: Spurred by fears of a measles outbreak in the flood-affected districts of Bihar, the state health department has decided to undertake a massive vaccination drive against the highly contagious viral disease …
