Immunisation in Medical News

Misled Public Stay Away from Polio Immunisation Drive

Already grappling with the oft-impressed canard that the polio vaccine leads to impotency, Uttar Pradesh health officials are now trying hard to dissuade people from// believing an American report claiming that the vaccine could even lead to cancer. And once again those falling easy prey to i...

Dreadful Polio Outbreak In Namibia – Need Immunisation Campaign

Namibia’s health ministry reports seven died of polio attack. Since last 10 years this counted //to the first case where the polio virus 1 of Wild Type was been proved to be responsible – preliminary report from a lab in South Africa reveals. Dr Kalumbi Shangula - permanent secretary sa...

Mother’s Attitude Towards Immunisation Makes it Inaccessible to Childre

A recent study stated that mothers of unimmunised children differ in their attitude with those of partially immunised in a number of ways//. This is the first large scale study of its kind in the UK, and suggests that different approaches are needed to maximise uptake of immunisation in these ...

Uttar Pradesh To Prepone The Japanese Encephalitis Immunisation Drive

The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to prepone the Japanese Encephalitis immunisation drive. This has caused displeasure among the health experts in the centre// as they feel that it might not be he right time and the data may need further analysis. It has been decided that the immunisat...

More Funds Are Required For Immunisation Drive

As much as US$ 34 billion are required for immunizing the most deprived children in the world until 2015, according to Lob-Levyt of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI).// One third of this amount is required to be spent on vaccines alone. This will serve to reduce the number of...

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 ...

Longer Needles Best for Infant Immunisation

Infants vaccinated with a long needle experience fewer reactions but get the same protection (immunogenicity) as a shorter needle, finds a study published on bmj.com// today. In the UK, primary care practitioners administer infant immunisations at 2, 3 and 4 months of age. Despite recommendat...

GlaxoSmithKline Travel Health: 55 percent of travellers needlessly put themselves at risk from a potentially fatal virus

...1 11.   Lin KW, Kircher JT. Hepatitis B. Am Fam Physician 2004; 69 (1): 75-82 12.   Zuckerman JN, Hoet B. Hepatitis B immunisation in travellers: poor risk perception and inadequate protection. Travel Med Inf Dis 2008; 6: 315-320 Enquiries: Virgo HEALTH Sarah Matthews&nb...

Unmasked and vulnerable

...trial of masks to be conducted internationally. Researchers at UNSW, Sydney's Westmead Hospital, Imperial College (London) and the National Centre for immunisation Research studied more than 280 adults in 143 families in Sydney during the winter seasons of 2006 and 2007. The adults were randomly allocated masks w...

Parents of new babies should be considered for a whooping cough booster, say experts

...gh for more than two weeks. The mother had received all her childhood immunisations including pertussis, there was no record of the father's pertussis immunisation status. The child died within 30 hours despite maximum therapy. The patient's mother subsequently tested positive for pertussis infection. This ...

Pakistan introduces vaccine to prevent top child killer

...f pentavalent will be a new chapter in the history of Pakistan," said Dr. Hussain Bux Memon, Pakistan's programme manager of the Expanded Programme on immunisation (EPI). "This vaccine will help us to save the lives of many children." The Hib vaccine will be administered through a one-shot immunization called ...

Latest research on allergies: Specific immunotherapy can help

...f the Institute, Professor Peter Sawicki, said today that none of the theories about the increase in allergies has been proven. For example, childhood immunisation does not seem to be responsible for the growth of allergies. "There are many unproven claims about allergies, said Professor Sawicki, "but there is...

Deadly disease eliminated in children under 5 years of age in Uganda

...al resources to procure Hib vaccine for its infant immunisation programme, in line with the GAVI co-financing poli... monitor those trends to ensure the quality of the immunisation programme, improve collaboration between clinician... 2007, a study from Bangladesh showed that routine immunisation of infants with a Hib conjugate vaccine prevented ...

Chicken pox vaccination should be introduced for children in the UK

...al stay was seven days, but ranged from one to 68. Most of these children were healthy before they contracted the virus, say the authors. Universal immunisation could have prevented their complications, as they were mostly old enough to have received the vaccine. An accompanying editorial in the journal com...

Most UK citizens susceptible to hepatitis B infection

...ilure of the UK to introduce universal hepatitis B immunisation means that most UK citizens are susceptible to inf... The main argument against introducing universal immunisation is the relatively low incidence of disease in the ...countries that have introduced universal childhood immunisation in the past 15 years now have a new generation of ...

Ships to the Rescue of Medically Deprived Assamese

...e hope to take our services to the lower Assam districts of Dhubri and Barpeta," Hazarika told IANS. The health camps are now concentrating on immunisation and general check up facilities. They are also dealing with malaria and Japanese encephalitis cases. As most of the people on these islands, c...

Cervical Cancer Vaccine for the 12 Year Old

...e has been initiated to by the government to vaccinate all girls from the age 11 to 14 against cervical cancer. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and immunisation want the vaccination against human papilloma virus (HPV) to be done for secondary school first year. And there is expected to be a "catch-up" program...

Girls Could Be Vaccinated Against Cervical Cancer in Britain

...next year. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and immunisation (JCVI) recommended the use of vaccines to guard ag...oSmithKline -- which are designed to be used in an immunisation programme. Gardasil was introduced to Britain last...iple, to introduce a HPV vaccine into the national immunisation programme." "A significant amount of plann...

Poor Health Practices Plague Rajasthan Tribal Women

... and other family members, especially mother in laws. The study said that almost all the mothers interviewed had either lost or mishandled the immunisation cards of their children. They didn't even know which vaccines their children received and when. Only 5 percent children have received all the ...

India Records Substantial Decline in Polio Cases

...2006,' said a WHO report. 'The exhaustive immunisation drive by India is quite encouraging. The governmen...ANS last week. The minister said frequent immunisation rounds using a monovalent polio vaccine in Uttar P...heir district administrations to keep a tab on the immunisation drive and curb any irregularities. It's n...

Children of Asylum Seekers Dont Get Adequate Medical Care in Australia

...us diseases like tuberculosis and malaria, often early and easily treatable and they tend to be under-immunised, so they haven't had the same level of immunisation as Australian children have had," Zwi notes. At its annual conference in Melbourne today, the 9,000 member Royal Australasian College of Physi...

WHO Launches Yellow Fever Initiative for West Africa

...stry, public health institutions and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The GAVI Fund provides resources for the Alliance programs. Childhood immunisation is one of the best values in health care, providing tremendous benefit at very low cost. A child can be immunised for only $30. It is a near-perfect i...

AIDS Vaccine Still a Long Way Off

...able. The hope is that an effective human T-cell vaccine could substantially improve the quality of life for people who contract the virus after immunisation by postponing the day when they develop HIV and Aids and have to begin treatment with a daily cocktail of drugs. Anthony Fauci says the success o...

British Doctors Want Indian Immigrants Screened for TB

... the British Medical Association's head of science and ethics, said the re-emergence of TB was so serious that ministers should consider the mandatory immunisation of all school children. He added that general practitioners should offer screening to new patients who come from parts of the world where the ...

Australia's Aborigines Affected by Poor Health: Experts

...generation is obesity. According to the Australian Medical Association (AMA), instant first-rate health care in Australia is a presumption and immunisation is the birthright of every child, but poor health traits normally visible among Third World children are, in fact, present in Australian communities -...

British Funds 250 Million Pounds to Reduce Child Mortality

... In Andhra Pradesh, two percent of women going to antenatal clinics are living with HIV and AIDS - more than anywhere else in India. Childhood immunisation has fallen since 1998, from 59 percent to 46 percent in 2005-06. More than 25 percent of women are left to give birth without the support of a qualifi...

Despite Control Efforts HBV Found to Transmit After Dental Surgery

...ual and say: "If no traditional risk factors are found the investigation usually stops." The UK government’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and immunisation is currently reviewing the evidence for vaccinating all children against HBV. But the most recent minutes - from a meeting in October last year...

Seven Polio Cases Detected in Bihar

...io cases surfaced in the state till the first week of February, despite the immunisation drive,' officials in the health department said. Of the seven cases...lio cases in India after Uttar Pradesh in 2006. The third statewide immunisation drive began Sunday with about 20 million children to be immunised. Official...

WHO Urges Higher Priority for Neglected Diseases

...riority in research and development, and health programmes are often poorly implemented. International funds tend to be directed towards childhood immunisation and treatment of HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis — the three diseases that kill the most people globally. "Other communicable diseases, includi...

Call for Rotavirus Vaccine Funding

... was registered for use in Australia last year, and in October the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee recommended it be included in a national immunisation program, giving it the green light for the Government to approve. Professor Elizabeth Elliott, a pediatrician at the Children's Hospital Westmea...

New Rebate a Win For Intellectually Disabled

...or the complexities involved in a comprehensive annual health assessment,” Dr Haikerwal said. “Research has shown that such assessments improve immunisation rates as well as the diagnosis and treatment of a range of diseases and conditions, including hearing and vision impairment. “We welcome the ne...

Migration is the Cause for Fresh Polio Cases in the Capital: Sheila Dikshit

...la Dikshit Saturday said that around 2.7 million kids would be administered immunisation drops as part of the Pulse Polio programme. "Delhi was on the threshol...gainst one in 2005. The chief minister Saturday launched a fresh polio immunisation drive after administering pulse polio drops to 20 children at her residence...

Fresh Polio Case Reported in Jammu

... of the disease." Health authorities said there was some lapse in the immunisation drive in 2005, which resulted in the resurgence of the disease last year. However, they argue that the renewed zest shown in the immunisation drive would yield results soon. "We hope see a reduction in the number of f...

IMA Oppose Introduction of Polio Injections

... Association (IMA) will oppose the government's plan to replace pulse polio immunisation drops with injections.// "The IMA will oppose the move to administer i...administer drops to their children due to various fears. "The current immunisation drive has been able to reduce the number of polio cases significantly and t...

Missed Vaccination Caused Largest Measles Outbreak in U.S in 2005

...ngly she brought back this infection that tore apart the carefully built up immunisation regime against the disease by the health officials in her home state, Indi...ersonnel, and globe trotters and travellers,to comply with taking requisite immunisation against this highly infectious disease .Currently the vaccination rates aga...

Help of Minority Leaders Needed to Curb Polio: Ramadoss

... in India.// According to him, a sense of "complacency" in the polio immunisation campaigns in Uttar Pradesh last year had led to the growth of the disease i...Uttar Pradesh and the result was quite visible in the December round of the immunisation campaign," Ramadoss told reporters after meeting with a delegation of Atlan...

Muslim Clerics to Join Hands to Eradicate Polio

... have volunteered to join the vaccination teams, which face Muslim resistance in several places. The clerics said they would visit villages during the immunisation drive to inform people about the vaccine's safety. A seven-member executive committee and 17-member working team of ulemas were constituted to r...

Increase in Polio Cases

...lity of SIA activities based on monitoring indicators. · Underserved population. In order to cover all the eligible children with Pulse Polio immunisation following measures are taken: · Information Education and Communication (IEC) and Social Mobilisation activities are being intensified by invol...

Flu Vaccine Shortage In Britain Causes Anxiety

...Pulse and published today, reveals a dramatic drop in the number of vaccinations. Some primary care trusts were found not to have reported any data on immunisation rates for October because numbers were so low. Elderly people over 65 and people with heart disease and diabetes are considered to be vulnerable...

Pandemic Planning for Hospitals

... Medical Journal of Australia. In a special influenza pandemic supplement, Mr Ralf Itzwerth, a medical sociologist from the National Centre for immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases, and Professor Raina MacIntyre, an influenza expert from the University of Sydney, said it i...