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 …
The UT Health department officials on Monday said referral of patients to hospitals in a critical stage has emerged as the primary reason for the increase in number of deaths due to swine flu. In a meeting held with health officials of Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, UT Advisor Pradip …
Zydus Cadila, one of the five largest pharmaceutical companies in India, has received the approval of the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) to conduct multi-centric clinical trials for the H1N1 (swine flu) vaccine in the country. Zydus is the first company to get the nod, an essential step prior …
The Government has spent Rs. 1,400 billion for the development of the health sector in 2009 while Rs. 2,700 billion has been allocated for the health sector this year, said Healthcare and Nutrition Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva. The Health Minister was speaking at a ceremony organized by the Ministry …
INDIGENOUS vaccine for swine flu will be available by March along with testing kits at just 25 per cent of the cost of its foreign counterpart, according to Dr V M Katoch, secretary, Department of Health Research and Director General of Indian Council of Medical Research. He said that five …
Hyderabad, Jan. 3: H1N1 vaccine may not be available in the country for at least four months, even as the second bout of human influenza A or swine flu has hit a number of states. About 100 confirmed fresh cases of swine flu are reported from different states everyday in …
The fatal hold of Influenza A (H1N1) virus on Delhi has been expanding, with two more persons succumbing to the disease today. With these two deaths, the cumulative toll of the disease had reached 72, said an official of the National Centre for Disease Control. However, details of the two …
Five persons, including a Chandigarh resident, died of swine flu in city hospitals in the last 24 hours. Rajan Kumar (52), who lived in Sector 30, became the eighth city resident to die of the virus. Kumar died in GMCH, Sector 32, late on Tuesday night. Doctors said the patient …
The national Capital on Wednesday reported 51 fresh swine flu cases, of which, 14 were children. Nobody died of the disease during the day and the toll remained at 69, health authorities said.
ICMR Cites Nerve Disorder As Side-Effect New Delhi: India will receive its first batch of H1N1 swine flu vaccine from Sanofi Pasteur by the end of January. But does India at all need a vaccine to combat H1N1? And will these vaccines, that have primarily been tested on foreign shores, …
After the bird flu scare in 2006, it was swine flu that dominated the headlines in 2009 ever since the first case was reported in June in Delhi. Face masks and sanitizers were back
Toll Mounts To 112 Ahmedabad/ Rajkot: The swine flu death figures registered an alarming jump as 12 deaths due to the virus were declared by the health officials in Ahmedabad on Wednesday. A total of 10 deaths were reported from Rajkot itself. These include a 10-month-old baby girl and a …
Surat: Swine flu death toll touched 100 in Gujarat as two more people, including fourand-a-half-year-old girl Pooja Patel, succumbed to the deadly virus on Tuesday. State
World Health Organisation chief Margaret Chan said on Tuesday that it was too early to declare victory over swine flu and insisted that measures taken to deal with the pandemic were justified.
D Ravi Kanth / Geneva December 30, 2009, 1:13 IST Even as the H1N1 influenza pandemic is coming to an end in the rich countries, nations like India and Egypt in the developing world must remain alert as there is
A day after influenza A (H1N1) claimed the first victim in Assam, another person has tested positive in Guwahati. The infected adult male, according to doctors in the Mahendra Mohan Choudhury Hospital, is in home isolation. So far 26 people have tested positive in the state, and of those 14 …
Patralekha Chatterjee COPENHAGEN SHOWED how fast and far India has traveled geo-politically. The same, alas, cannot be said about the health of the nation. On the international stage, India's relentless focus on equity made us proud. The time has come to apply that principle at home. India's ailing health delivery …
Vrinda Sharma CHANDIGARH: With mercury falling sharply in many parts of Punjab and Haryana, there has been a surge in swine flu cases here as 38 people have died in December so far, officials said on Sunday.
The alert over influenza A (H1N1) virus has been heightened by the first death of a patient in the isolation ward of the Guwahati Medical College Hospital this morning. The patient, 21-year-old Sikha Biswas, was admitted to the isolation ward on December 15, and following infection died due to multiple …
Nepal on Sunday reported its first swine flu fatality.A 29-year-old woman suffering from the disease died of various complications on Wednesday evening at Bir Hospital, according to a doctor at the state-owned hosptial.The victim's identity has been kept secret on her family's request.According to Prof. Dr. Vijaya Sharma, the H1N1 …
