Influenza, or flu, and air pollution are significant public health risks that impact nations around the world with large economic consequences. The authors of this paper show that increased levels of air pollution significantly increase the rate of hospitalisation for people with flu. In addition, they find that protection afforded …
Pune The State health department has registered two more deaths due to the HINI virus, including a 10-month-old baby and a 38-year-old woman. This takes the death toll due to swine flu to 180. 10-month-old Vaishnavi Jagtap from Hadapsar was admitted to Sassoon hospital and tested positive with the virus. …
Off Sarkhej highway on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, Solapur highway in Pune, NH 7 near Whitefield in Bangalore, Ambala-Chandigarh highway at Lalru--steel-and-glass buildings dot the landscape. From the outside they look like archetypical expressions of new-age planning. Inside, a world of biotech is gathering momentum--whirring steel tanks, moving glass vials, …
Rajkot: Three more swine flu deaths were reported from Saurashtra in last 24 hours. While a girl died at PDU Hospital in the city, two persons died at Bhavnagar
Biotech major Feb. 2: Biotech major Bharat Biotech International hopes to bring out swine (H1N1) vaccine in April. The city-based biotech firm was one of the three firms that the government had selected for developing India's indigenous swine flu vaccine. The other two are Serum Institute of India and Panacea …
Bindu Shajan Perappadan NEW DELHI: Still enjoying a breather from the slew of swine flu cases reported until a few weeks ago, doctors in the Capital now warn that with the season changing the relief might not last long.
Pune For the first time in six months not a single case of H1N1 virus has been reported at Sassoon General Hospital in last two days. There has been a positive drop in the number of cases at the government hospital. According to National Institute of Virology (NIV) Deputy Director …
Surat: Seven patients admitted to various hospitals in city tested positive on Sunday. Meanwhile, city administration served two more hospitals with a notice for not reporting positive swine flu cases, as per the norm. The government figures show that as many as 20 swine flu patients are receiving treatment in …
Mumbai The state health department will seek 2,500 doses of H1N1 vaccines from the Centre for the immunisation of healthcare professionals exposed to the virus. The professionals had expressed concerns about the vaccine
Vadodara/Rajkot: Swine flu claimed two more lives in the city on Tuesday, while a 40-year-old woman lost her life due to the pandemic in Rajkot. The first victim in Vadodara was SK Bhatnagar, who was admitted to a private hospital, and died early on Tuesday morning while Suresh Patel died …
With the National Institute of Virology (NIV) admitting that the H1N1 viral transmission has not yet stopped, imported H1N1 vaccine will soon be administered to the high-risk groups of doctors and paramedics dealing with swine flu patients. In Pune district, where over 10 lakh people have been screened for H1N1 …
At a hearing here at the Council of Europe, a European Union human rights watchdog, the World Health Organisation (WHO) denied on Tuesday that it was unduly influenced by drug companies to exaggerate the dangers of the H1N1 flu virus. Pharmaceutical firms picked up multi-million dollar vaccination contracts when the …
Pune With the National Institute of Virology (NIV) admitting that the H1N1 viral transmission has not yet stopped, imported H1N1 vaccine will soon be administered to the high-risk groups of doctors and paramedics dealing with swine flu patients. In Pune district, where over 10 lakh people have been screened for …
Not Taking Pandemic Seriously Is To Trivialize Deaths Of Over 14,000 People: WHO New Delhi: The World Health Organization has termed allegations of creating a fake pandemic around H1N1 swine flu virus to bring economic benefit to the pharma industry as
ISLAMABAD: National Institute of Health (NIH) on Tuesday confirmed that 24 deaths had been reported from swine flu (H1N1) so far throughout the country. According to NIH sources, out of total 1,029 suspected cases 253 reported H1N1 positive while in 24 deaths three were from Islamabad, 12 from Punjab, five …
Jammu: Swine flu claimed another life when a GREF driver died at the Government Medical College (GMC) Hospital this morning. Reports said Manoj (35), who is basically from Kerala, was presently posted at Akhnoor. He was unwell for the past few weeks and was consulting local doctors. Recently, he was …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is planning to review its response to H1N1 once the pandemic is over. Several European countries have accused it of exaggeration. With the world nervously watching the spread of the deadly H5N1 bird flu, which only sporadically infects humans but kills over half of those …
Even as questions are raised about the efficacy of the H1N1 vaccine, India has given leading French pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur permission to start trials from Wednesday. While the trials will take about three weeks, the single dose vaccine will be available from the second week of February.
