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A Project to Map the Health Care Needs of a District in Kerala

...this project. The plan is to record data, say like vaccination details of children and their disease history. The inputs will be recorded by field agents on their PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) and sent to a central database. Thus we will have a medical history of what exactly has been achieved in that place...

Vaccine Helps Reduce Frequent Ear Infections

...hildren and adults since being introduced into the vaccination schedule,” Poehling said. “We have seen declines i...ces recommended the vaccine be part of the routine vaccination schedule the same year. Children receive four doses of the vaccine: at age two months, four months, ...

High-dose Inhaled Corticosteroid Use for COPD Could Cut Risk of Lung Cancer

...ulmonary and primary care settings as is influenza vaccination or cardiac risk factor modification. The potential for benefit is just as great." Source-Eurekalert...

Family Members Most Often Source of Whooping Cough in Infants

...contagious bacterial infection. Although pertussis vaccination has reduced the number of reported cases in industrialized countries by more than 95 percent from what it was in the 1950s, the number of reported pertussis cases in the United States has tripled in the past two decades. “It is important to underst...

Cervical Cancer Vaccine Under Consideration in Europe

...Institute in Germany has recommended the universal vaccination of girls aged 12 to 17 years. The Italian Ministry of Health has announced that vaccination of 12 years old girls in Italy can start as soon as regional vaccination centers are prepared. Go...

Chicken Pox Rears Its Head in Tamil Nadu, Yet Again

... to control the spread of infection. Chicken pox vaccination is only 90 per cent effective, but it minimizes th...at would arise later. So, the people should go for vaccination but unfortunately, the vaccine is expensive and not affordable for the poorer sections. Voluntary ...

Scare in Assam Over Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine

...inister Himanta Biswa Sarma told IANS. A massive vaccination program launched by the state over the weekend has...on for curing Japanese encephalitis other than the vaccination developed by China. "A total of 16 districts in India were provided with the very costly vaccinati...

Teens to Be Lined Up for Vaccination Shots

...ll our efforts at promoting the positive impact of vaccination have tended to focus on parents. "Now we have a completely different ball game with teenagers, notorious for being strong willed and not always deferring to their parents, having to make up their own minds about vaccination”. According to Dr. Clair...

FDA Approves First-of-its-Kind Drug to Treat Rare Blood Disorder

...g and requires that patients receive meningococcal vaccination prior to receiving Soliris. The labeling also includes a Medication Guide for patients. In addition, the risk management plan includes an educational program for physicians. Orphan products are developed to treat rare diseases or conditions that a...

Toddler Infected With Rare Side Effect of Smallpox Vaccine

...ather passed on a rare side effect of the smallpox vaccination he had taken, eczema vaccinatum, to his 2-year-old... from a stockpile the CDC keeps in case widespread vaccination ever becomes necessary. He had also got an antiviral drug called cidofovir and the experimental dr...

Hepatitis Rates Plummet in the U.S

... is the age group that has been covered by routine vaccination for both hepatitis A and B," Wasley said. She also encouraged more efforts to ‘drive down rates among intravenous drug users, homosexuals and heterosexuals with multiple sex partners’. Hepatitis A, B and C are viruses that cause inflammation of ...

Booster Dose for Chickenpox Vaccine Recommended

...rs after the implementation of universal varicella vaccination in 2005, “ Waning of immunity is of particular pub...dy after noticing outbreaks were happening despite vaccination programs. Seward said the chickenpox vaccine provides 85 per cent protection, but of the remaining...

Afghanistan Reports Fresh Bird Flu Cases

...nces which reported bird flu. "We have completed vaccination and culling in many poultry farms and have now started a similar process in households [backyard poultry]," Dr Azizullah Usmani, director of Afghanistan's Department of Animal Health and Production, said. Afghanistan is also facing a cash crunch wh...

Seven Polio Cases Detected in Bihar

... the faecal-oral route. In recent years enhanced vaccination efforts have been led by world health bodies like WHO to eradicate polio globally, but the trends in Indian states like Bihar are disturbing. Polio remains endemic in just four countries now - Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Source-IANS...

Flies too Have Immune Memory!

...'t kill all of them. "I liken my work to the first vaccination experiments," said Pham, who is first author of the study. She essentially vaccinated over a million flies, typically doing 7,000 in a day, in numerous experiments. In a key experiment, she injected some flies with killed bacteria and others with jus...

Flu Vaccination Must for Asthmatic, US Officials Stress

...ircumstances the asthmatic children undergoing flu vaccination could be lower than 29 per cent. That is a very disturbing trend as influenza could be fatal in asthmatic children or adults.Hence family doctors should take a greater responsibility in properly educating their patients, it is stressed. SRM...

No Takers for India's First Bird Flu Vaccine

... to control the spread of the virus as well as for vaccination in anticipation of an outbreak. "The immune response is good and the protection offered by the vaccine has been found to be above 90 percent. The protection should last up to six months for hens. For a broiler it needs to be administered only once,...

Nigerian Programme Increases Polio Immunisation

An initiative to increase polio vaccination in Nigeria has been a success, but continued commitment from the government is needed// to help eradicate the virus from northern states, say officials. The Immunization Plus Days (IPDs) initiative was launched in May 2006 by the National Programme...

UN Health Agency, Partners Seek Total Eradication of Polio

...12 months, and then sustain for as long as needed, vaccination levels in the last four endemic countries to those...reaches children by improving the quality of polio vaccination campaigns, strengthening health infrastructure, addressing security challenges, and by enhancing acc...

Hearing Loss in Children Leads to Substantial Meningitis Risk

...signs and symptoms of meningitis, and allowing for vaccination to be considered as a preventive step. Previous research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined that children who receive cochlear implants to counter hearing loss are more likely to develop meningitis. Worldwide, 90 of the 6...

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