Health

Maharashtra govt launches vaccine for infants

About 33 per cent children who have still not been immunized in the state under its public healthcare programme are set to benefit by the vaccine’s launch.

Publication Date: 
24/11/2015
Tabassum Barnagarwala
Indian Express (Mumbai)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Mumbai, Vaccination, Pneumonia, Encephalitis, Immunisation, Health Care, Health
Health

Kangra district to introduce rotavirus vaccination soon

Kangra is one of the three districts in the country where rotavirus vaccination is being introduced in the public health system as a pilot project by the Union Health Ministry this month.

Publication Date: 
16/11/2015
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Himachal Pradesh, Vaccination, Ministry Of Health And Family Welfare, Kangra, Immunisation, WHO, Health Care
Health

Judgement of the High Court of Delhi regarding the results of the Multi Centre Clinical Trial of Rotavirus Vaccine done on infants, 14/10/2015

Judgement of the High Court of Delhi in the matter of Jacob Puliyel Vs Union of India & Others dated 14/10/2015. This petition, by way of Public Interest Litigation, is filed seeking a direction to the respondents to provide complete data of the results of the Multi Centre Clinical Trial of Rotavirus Vaccine done on infants.

Judgement Date: 
14/10/2015
Tags:
Child Health, Vaccination, Immunisation, Drugs, Health Effects, Medical Research, High Court, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), WHO, Pune, Delhi, Vellore, India, Viral Diseases
Health

National Health Profile (NHP) of India 2015

As per National Health Profile 2015, there will be 19 percent increase in cancer among men by 2020 with mouth cancer registering the highest spike and a 23 percent increase among women with gall bladder cancer showing the sharpest increase. The cancer incidence in men will rise from the current 522164 to 622203 in 2020 warns this report released by J.P Nadda, the Union Minister for Health on Sep 22, 2015.

Publication Date: 
22/09/2015
Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI)
Tags:
Health, Health Care, India, Infant mortality, Maternal Health, Statistics, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Finance, Diseases, Child Health, Immunisation
Health

Immunogenicity of a new routine vaccination schedule for global poliomyelitis prevention: an open-label, randomised controlled trial

Polio eradication needs a new routine immunisation schedule—three or four doses of bivalent type 1 and type 3 oral poliovirus vaccine (bOPV) and one dose of inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), but no immunogenicity data are available for this schedule. The researchers aimed to assess immunogenicity of this vaccine schedule.

Publication Date: 
18/09/2015
Roland W Sutter, Sunil Bahl, Jagadish M Deshpande & et al
Lancet
1-9
Tags:
Polio, Vaccination, Child Health, India, Immunisation
Health

Dengue sting gets sharper: 20 new cases reported in Ahmedabad

AHMEDABAD: With the city registering 20 dengue cases on Wednesday, experts sounded an alarm and warned against unnecessary platelet transfusion.

Publication Date: 
10/09/2015
Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
Tags:
Gujarat, Dengue, Vector Borne Diseases, Health Effects, Immunisation, Health
Health

India free of maternal, neonatal tetanus: WHO

India has eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus.

Publication Date: 
28/08/2015
Sushmi Dey
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Maternal Health, WHO, Immunisation, National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Health Care, Health
Poverty

Can randomized trials eliminate global poverty?

A new generation of economists is trying to transform global development policy through the power of randomized controlled trials.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
13/08/2015
Jeff Tollefson
Nature
150-153
Tags:
Poverty, Development, Rural Health, Immunisation, Haryana, Child Health, Education, India, Anti-Poverty Programmes, China, Gujarat, Industrial Pollution
Health

Child immunisation rates more affected by poverty and bad health than ideology

Rates more influenced by financial constraints and access to services than anti-vaccination beliefs, finds University of Adelaide study

Publication Date: 
06/08/2015
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Health, Immunisation, Poverty, Vaccination, Children, Australia
Health

Mass awareness, immunisation to help curb spread of hepatitis, say experts

AURANGABAD: Mass awareness, universal guideline for immunisation and hygienic handling of food and water will help curb hepatitis, said experts on Tuesday while observing world Hepatitis Day.

Publication Date: 
30/07/2015
Ranjana Diggikar
Times Of India (Aurangabad)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Hepatitis, Immunisation, Aurangabad (D), WHO, Health Effects, Health

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