The number of deaths among children under the age of five has reduced by half since 1990. Yet over 5 million children are still dying every year from mostly preventable causes. Pneumonia is responsible for nearly 20% of these deaths and is the leading infectious cause of death in this …
AWAY from the conference rooms of climate talks, developed countries have begun arm-twisting developing countries to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. Sasan, a coal-based project of Reliance Power, almost lost out on funding from a US-based lending agency (See: US bank uses carbon smokescreen). Earlier in the year, power …
The story of how pharmaceutical companies influenced scientists and official agencies like the World Health Organization (WHO) in the recent swine flu scare and the saga of the undeclared conflicts of interests of members of the WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts has set off alarm bells around the world. …
Manisha Jha BIJNOR: Travelling about 250 kilometres away from the Capital into the dusty rural heartland of Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh one comes face-to-face with the grim reality of rural health infrastructure and of its missed opportunities in checking diseases that are quietly wiping out a sizeable population of children …
Pneumonia has become the scourge of the season with Celsius lows combining with high air pollution to send many like former chief minister Jyoti Basu to hospital. According to doctors, there has been a 20 per cent increase in the incidence of pneumonia in the city over last year.
Air pollution may double the risk tha an elderly person will be hospitalise for pneumonia. Pneumonia is the leading cause of death in the elderly. The study -led by researchers at McMaster University in Canada and reported in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine -- looked at …
One child dies every minute in India due to pneumonia, with the global meter ticking faster at one in every 15 seconds. The respiratory infection, the leading cause behind deaths among children, claims two million infants each year out of which India accounts for 4,00,000 cases alone. Realising the urgency, …
HAND-HELD BILLING MACHINES FOR PDS SHOPSBEING the only State to have received government of India orders for administering the Hib vaccine to all new borns (prior to rolling out the scheme nationally) to prevent illnesses like meningitis, pneumonia and septic arthritis, Tamil Nadu is waiting for more orders from the …
NEW DELHI: The government will introduce Hib (Haemophilus influenza type b) pentavalent (five-in-one) vaccine in the routine immunisation programme from next year. It will replace the DPT and Hepatitis
Hyderabad, Nov. 1: Pneumonia kills more children than AIDS, measles and malaria. In the twin cities, the mortality rate is anywhere between 50 to 70 percent for children below five years, particularly those in the age bracket of one and two years. November 2 will mark the first World Pneumonia …
KATHMANDU, NOV 02 - Every year, 11,000 children under five years of age die of pneumonia, despite the state's claim that its efforts to contain child mortality are paying off. According to the Ministry of Health (MoH), over 58,000 children aged below five years die of various diseases, including pneumonia. …
GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals (GSK) recently cut a deal with the Brazilian government, which allows it to supply a 10-valent vaccine against childhood pneumonia and other life-threatening infections for a decade at a fixed price in a reflection of the growing importance of vaccines and emerging markets to Big Pharma. The contract, …
The health ministry has introduced an additional vaccine to protect infants against pneumonia, one of the leading causes of death in children under 15 years in Bhutan, and meningitis.
The Capital reported 11 new cases of H1N1 on Sunday. Of these, four patients have a history of foreign travel, the other seven are indigenous cases. After the Capital logged its first two deaths due to the virus on Thursday, two patients
Child health experts in Salem and nearby areas talk about their experiences Sharing his views: Government Medical College Hospital Dean P.Shanmugam addressing delegates at the Pneumococcal Disease Conference in Salem on Sunday.
A total of 243 children aged one month to five years with World Health Organization defined severe community acquired pneumonia were studied for the presence of atypical bacterial pathogens: 24 were found positive for mycoplasma infection. There was no significant association with any of the clinical, laboratory and radiological variables …
We studied the implementation of the World Health Organization protocol for the treatment of malnourished children at the largest maternal and infant hospital in the northeast of Brazil. The implementation of the protocol resulted in a reduction in the mortality rate from 38.0% to 16.2%.
In a major technological breakthrough, scientists of the biotechnology centre of the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) have succeeded in producing the world
