Health

Mexico Suspends Infant Vaccines After 2 Babies Die and 29 Are Sickened

Mexico’s public-health system has suspended infant vaccines and mounted an investigation after two babies died and 29 were sickened in an impoverished community in southern Mexico.

Publication Date: 
11/05/2015
Asian Wall Street Journal (Hong Kong)
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Health, Mexico, Vaccination, Child Health, Tuberculosis (TB), Hepatitis
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Status of hepatitis B infection - a decade after hepatitis B vaccination of susceptible Nicobarese, an indigenous tribe of Andaman & Nicobar (A&N) islands with high hepatitis B endemicity

Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India, home to six primitive tribes, constituting about 10 per cent of the total population of these Islands have been detected with high endemicity of hepatitis B infection. During 2000, a total of 936 individuals ≤ 45 yr, negative for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and antibody anti-HBs were vaccinated with three doses of a recombinant DNA hepatitis B vaccine in two villages of Car Nicobar Islands.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2015
Haimanti Bhattacharya, Debdutta Bhattacharya, S.R. Ghosal & et al
Indian Journal of Medical Research
141
653-661
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Hepatitis, Vaccination, India, Car Nicobar Island, A & N Islands
Health

Govt Allows Pharma Cos to Hike Prices of 509 Essential Drugs

Prices of drugs for various ailments like diabetes, hepatitis & cancer to go up by 3.84%

Publication Date: 
09/04/2015
Economic Times (New Delhi)
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Drugs, Diabetes, Hepatitis, Cancer, Drug Industry, Antibiotics, Health
Health

By 2020, all kids to be vaccinated

With an aim to vaccinate all partially-vaccinated and unimmunised children by 2020, the government on Monday launched a 15-day media campaign to educate the masses on immunisation, ahead of impleme

Publication Date: 
24/03/2015
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Vaccination, Children, Child Health, Immunisation, Diseases, Polio, Measles, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis
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Drinking water has fecal bacteria: NCDC

RAIPUR: A study conducted by National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Delhi, has confirmed the presence of coliform bacteria, found in feces in the drinking water supply in Raipur and identified

Publication Date: 
09/03/2015
Times Of India (Raipur)
Tags:
Chhattisgarh, Drinking Water, Water Supply, Jaundice, Hepatitis, Raipur (T), WHO, Waterborne diseases
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Pakistan wastes $3.7 million worth of donated vaccine, official says

Pakistan has wasted $3.7 million (2.4 million pounds) worth of vaccines donated to protect children from deadly diseases because officials failed to store them properly, a senior health official to

Publication Date: 
03/03/2015
Reuters
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Health, Vaccination, Pakistan, Hepatitis, Child Health, UNICEF, South Asia
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Measuring vaccine confidence: Introducing a Global Vaccine Confidence Index

Public confidence in vaccination is vital to the success of immunisation programmes worldwide. Understanding the dynamics of vaccine confidence is therefore of great importance for global public health. Few published studies permit global comparisons of vaccination sentiments and behaviours against a common metric. This article presents the findings of a multi-country survey of confidence in vaccines and immunisation programmes in Georgia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom (UK) – these being the first results of a larger project to map vaccine confidence globally.

Publication Date: 
25/02/2015
Heidi J Larson, William S Schulz, Joseph D Tucker & et al
Plos Current Outbreaks
1-22
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Vaccination, Immunisation, India, Georgia, Nigeria, Pakistan, United Kingdom (UK), Health Care, Polio, Hepatitis, Child Health, Statistics
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Cancer cases may rise sharply: WHO

Over eight million people died of the disease in 2012

Publication Date: 
05/02/2015
Smriti Kak Ramachandran
Hindu (New Delhi)
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Cancer, WHO, Diseases, Hepatitis, India, Tobacco Related Cancer, Health Effects, Health
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WORLD CANCER DAY 2015 :GLOBAL PRESS RELEASE

Affordable funding increase can save three million lives per year from cancer in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) by 2030

New data projects that US$18 billion increase in funding per year by the international community could result in a 30% reduction in cancer deaths in LMICs by 2030

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Cancer, Health Effects, Tobacco Related Cancer, Hepatitis, Health
Water Pollution

Goof-up: ‘Ghaggar’s polluted water causing Hepatitis C’

An improper brief from the local authorities and in his bid to address multiple issues, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar landed into an embarrassing situation, when he said his government would e

Publication Date: 
31/12/2014
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Haryana, Water Pollution, Hepatitis, Ghaggar, River Pollution, Health Effects

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