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. …
Chennai: More children in India are dying every year soon after being vaccinated, and the government has no clue why. Union health ministry statistics obtained under the Right to Information Act show that 128 children died in 2010 due to adverse effects after immunization (AEFI). That count has risen in …
In a bid to monitor the immunisation process and ensure its effective implementation, the Union Health Ministry will soon have a system in place to track and verify children who are vaccinated across states. States have been asked to send data of vaccinated children along with mothers
The flow of populations within and across international boundaries is an important element in today's globalized world. Recent estimates of migration patterns place the combined numbers of international migrants and internal migrants at nearly a billion people. Although migrant populations are extremely diverse, the processes of migration include certain characteristics …
The pulse polio drive, held by the civic body on Sunday, saw a slide in turnout with only 57.58% of the city's children under five years taking the oral vaccine. The target this time was 9,44,661 children. However, only 5,43,936 children were brought for vaccination against polio, making the coverage …
Most cases of diphtheria across the country have been reported from Delhi, according to recent figures. According to statistics released by the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI), under the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 163 of the 177 diphtheria deaths recorded in 2010 had occurred in the …
Rajya Sabha member Brinda Karat has questioned the role of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in the controversial Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine post-licensure observational study and pointed out that some officials of the institute acted as
Warning of the risks involved in totally depending on external sources for funding the country's Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP), the draft National Vaccine Policy has recommended that the government take ownership of the programme for ensuring vaccine security and equity by creating fiscal and legislative provisions with appropriate support from …
What are the world's best and worst places to be a mother? The 12th annual Mothers' Index analyzes health, education and economic conditions for women and children in 164 countries. Norway ranks 1 this year and Afghanistan ranks last. The United States comes in at 31 among the 43 developed …
Europe, especially France, has been hit by a major outbreak of measles, which the UN health agency is blaming on the failure to vaccinate all children. The World Health Organisation said Thursday that France had 4,937 reported cases of measles between January and March
With a view to bringing down Infant Mortality Rate, 2011 will be observed as Vaccination Day in Madhya Pradesh. This instruction was given by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan during the review meeting of the Health Department on Tuesday. He asked the officers concerned to send a proposal to the …
Uttar Pradesh, one of the polio-endemic states, has been able to check the transmission of the wild polio virus for almost a year now, while Bihar, another endemic state, has not reported any case for seven months now. Till last year, the success was limited to controlling the spread of …
The National Vaccine Policy document has been developed following the recommendation of National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI). This policy document addresses broad issues of strengthening the institutional framework, processes, evidence base and framework required for decision making for strengthening Universal Immunization Programme in India and to streamline the …
LICENCES of public-sector, vaccine-manufacturing units were restored more than a year ago. But the units are yet to resume supply of vaccines to the Centre’s Universal Immunisation Programme, and it will not happen any time soon if one were to believe activists. The Central Research Institute (CRI) at Kasauli in …
New Delhi: In what could come as a big help to parents, the Haryana government has launched a new software in Rohtak, which will enable the administration to send webbased SMS alerts on scheduled dates for immunization. These SMS alerts will be sent to parents in three installments
A special medical team from Delhi is scheduled to arrive in Gujarat in a day or two to study the cause of death of four children after they were given oral vaccines for measles in Adipur-Kutch on Wednesday. An official spokesman of the State government said Foods and Drugs Division …
Information provided by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare in responde to RTI filed by Dr. Babu K V seeking details on the total no. of deaths following immunization in the country (AEFI) from 2001 to 2009.
Kolkata, 1 March: India has moved closer to eradication of polio, recording only 42 cases in 2010 compared to 741 in the previous year. Till February this year, only a single case has been reported from Howrah, according to the India National Polioplus Committee of Rotary International. A special polio …
Thai scientists have successfully produced the world's first dengue hemorrhagic fever vaccine and will let the private sector improve it for the effective treatment of patients. The Thailand Ministry of Science and Technology has introduced the world's first live attenuated dengue hemorrhagic fever vaccine developed by Thailand researchers. Thai Science …
Mumbai: Vaccines are back in favour. After being junked by pharma biggies some years back, now almost every drug major is investing in vaccines by acquiring or building on fresh capacities. The evidence lies in pharma biggie Pfizer acquiring Wyeth and domestic major Shantha Biotech being snapped up by Sanofi …
