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 Maharashtra Government on Monday said as many as 3,586 patients have been cured from swine flu. Till date, 10,19,886 people were examined and 50,193 suspected patients were given Tamiflu medicines in the State. After examining, 3,822 persons were found positive. Of these, 3,586 persons are cured. 272 persons, including …
Twenty students of Class IX from Sanskriti School in Chanakyapuri, South Delhi, reportedly tested positive for swine flu after returning from an outstation tour.
MUMBAI: The state health department fears that the second wave of the swine flu epidemic in the state could be more dangerous than the current one. The health department is busy gearing up its machinery to deal with the flu's second wave in the winter. Government doctors working in the …
India's hope for a H1N1 vaccine has got a shot in the arm with Serum Institute beginning animal trials for the vaccine, a prelude to the much tougher human trials. "Animal trials for the H1N1 vaccine have started," Rajeev M. Dhere, senior director, Serum Institute of India, said. Around 500 …
Teena Thacker With the government planning to introduce H1N1 vaccine by December this year, a crucial meeting to discuss the scientific rationale related to the new vaccine will be held between health experts and manufacturers on October 13. The manufacturers
Mumbai: Preparing for a second wave of swine flu in winter as predicted by WHO, Maharashtra Government has decided to organise a series of workshops to train family doctors and paramedicals statewide to battle the H1N1 virus. You may also want to see "The government will work closely with pharma …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) reiterated its confidence in the H1N1 vaccine on Tuesday, calling it the most important tool against the pandemic. Mild adverse side effects such as muscle cramps or headache are to be expected in some cases, but everyone who has access to the vaccine should be …
The World Health Organi-sation restated its confidence in the H1N1 flu vaccine on Tuesday, calling it the most important tool against the pandemic. Mild adverse side effects such as muscle cramps or headache are to be expected in some cases, but everyone who has access to the vaccine should be …
US Pharmacists Add Cherry Syrup To Drug Content To Make Their Own Version For Kids Parents usually try to steer their children away from ingredients like sugar and artificial cherry flavoring. But this fall, those pedestrian food additives might help treat some children stricken with the flu. With the liquid …
The developing world will suffer about 80 per cent of the damage from climate change despite accounting for only around a third of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the World Bank said on Sunday.
Gurgaon: Eight students of one section of a private school tested positive for swine flu on Saturday. A media release from the Shikshantar School in South city said,
THE logic in favour of purchases of vaccine firms seems irrefutable. The world is in the grip of a swine-flu pandemic, which will probably infect 40% or more of the human race. Vaccines are likely to be in demand for some time. And the vaccine business has high barriers to …
While the country is preparing to combat pandemic H1N1 influenza A virus, another outbreak of a virus called dengue is gradually escalating at an alarming level. City hospitals are seeing huge number of patients everyday. Health experts warned that if proper measures are delayed, the condition could be more fatal …
Many people who have died of H1N1 swine flu in the United States have also had bacterial infections, health officials reported recently. A study of 77 patients who died of the new pandemic H1N1 virus showed 29 percent of them had so called bacterial co-infections, the U.S. Centers for Disease …
At least two people succumbed to influenza A (H1N1) in Delhi on today, taking the death toll in the capital to 13, health authorities said. While one person died in a private hospital, a 22-year-old man died at the Safdarjung Hospital. Though the details of the first person were unavailable, …
Mumbai Three people in the state died of H1N1 over the weekend taking the death toll to 124. Two of them died in Mumbai, one at civic-run King Edward Memorial Hospital and the other at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital. On Thursday night, 11-month-old Jayesh from Nerul was rushed to KEM …
Five more persons succumbed to swine flu while 178 fresh cases of the disease were reported from across the country on Tuesday. With this, the number of deaths due to swine flu has reached 308 while those affected have crossed 10,000, according to the Union Health Ministry. Delhi reported the …
Sept. 29: Swine flu claimed two more lives in the city on Tuesday taking the death toll to 34. Both the deaths were reported at Gandhi Hospital. The patients were admitted to the hospital with acute pneumonia which they developed due to the H1N1 virus. They were identified as Kavitha, …
