March’s top stories: Salix sold to Valeant, global drug development partnerships
Salix accepted Valeant's $15.8bn offer, AstraZeneca and HSCI partnered to develop new medicines for diabetes; while India introduced new Rotavirus vaccine. Pharmaceutical-technology.com wraps-up the key headlines from March 2015. (Source: Pharmaceutical Technology)
Source: Pharmaceutical Technology - April 9, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
India introduces new Rotavirus vaccine
India has launched its first domestically developed and manufactured Rotavirus vaccine, Rotavac, to combat infant mortality due to diarrhoea in the country. (Source: Pharmaceutical Technology)
Source: Pharmaceutical Technology - March 10, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Bharat Biotech unveils indigenously-developed Rotavirus vaccine
The vaccine will prevent Rotavirus infection that claims lives of over 1,13,000 infants every year in India, through a highly infectious diarrhoea. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - March 9, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
India unveils Rotavirus vaccine, claimed to be cheapest
'Rotavac', launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is the third such vaccine available globally against Rotavirus. (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - March 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What I Tell Parents Who Ask Me About Alternate Vaccine Schedules
It happens every once in a while in my practice: Parents ask if we can delay or skip certain vaccines, or spread them out.
According to a study just published in the journal Pediatrics, I’m not alone — in fact, 93 percent of pediatricians get asked the same thing.
Now, it’s important to point out that most families don’t ask for this. Most families are fine with the current vaccine schedule — as they should be, since it has been carefully studied and is felt to be safe. We give so many vaccines to babies because they are the ones who are most likely to get very sick from vaccine-preventable di...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - March 9, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Claire McCarthy Tags: Claire McCarthy, MD Vaccines Source Type: news
What's Working: Public Health Progress Since the Haiti 2010 Earthquake
The hardest moment of my 6 years as CDC director was telling the family of Diane Caves, a young professional staff member at CDC, that she had died in the Haiti earthquake.
Diane was one of many who lost their lives in this devastating earthquake. The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti in January 2010 killed more than a hundred thousand people and displaced another 1.5 million. It also decimated the country's already fragile health care system, and was followed by a devastating cholera outbreak that affected more than 725,000 people.
As a country, Haiti has faced and continues to face enormous difficulties, but it...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 23, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Seeking Justice Through Vaccines, These Famous Artists Are Standing Up For Change
Beloved portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz often captures celebrity subjects before her noted lens, having snapped cultural icons ranging from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
Her most recent photograph, however, depicts a different sort of notable figures, those linked to the development of several life-saving vaccines. The image is part of the vaccination awareness campaign "The Art of Saving a Life (ASAL)," which, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, commissioned creative works from artists, writers and musicians, exhibiting the many ways vaccines have positively impacted histo...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - February 3, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
India to have locally-made low cost rotavirus vaccine this year
The vaccine is expected to be available at almost one-fifteenth of the current market price, a senior official, privy to developments, said. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - January 24, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Phony Anti-Vaccine Propaganda Is Killing U.S. Children
When the nation turned our eyes to watch the ball drop in Times Square on New Year's Eve, we saw actress and former Playboy Playmate Jenny McCarthy urging viewers to kiss her on our TV screens. Thousands of people did, and sent her pictures to prove it. That's the nature of being a celebrity, possessing the ability to influence other people's behavior, and therein lies its potential for abuse.
The idea that vaccines cause autism has been found to be totally false by doctors and scientists, in the same way almost all sane observers agree global warming is manmade. But thanks to anti-vaccine misinformation spread by s...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
CQRS information collections
The first collection is for the rotavirus vaccination programme. Practices should see data returned on CQRS by 19 January. If not, contact your area team. This may mean data hasn’t been successfully collected automatically and you’ll need to manually enter the data if you want CQRS to calculate your payment.
The other is a preparatory collection for QOF. This collection is for reporting purposes only and there’s no payment attached. QOF payments are made annually at the end of the 2014/15 financial year. However, you should check the data that’s returned to make sure it’s correct. If you don’t see data returned...
Source: NHS Networks - January 15, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: Maria Axford Source Type: news
2014: The Year of the Virus
Ebola is now a dreaded household name. Everyone has heard of this virus, causing thousands of deaths in countries in Africa particularly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. We followed the plight of health care workers who put their lives on the line to battle the viral disease, trying to prevent the virus from spreading to the next host. But what about the Enterovirus D68? And what about Chlorovirus, Densovirus, Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus and Ranavirus? (See Bullets below).
Our understanding of the viral world is severely limited. Viruses are the most numerous and diverse entities on earth with estimates of 1....
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - January 13, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Vaccination Can Cut Rates of Common Infection in Infants
Rotavirus triggers potentially dangerous diarrhea, vomiting, experts say (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - January 13, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Vaccination Can Cut Rates of Common Infection in Infants
Rotavirus triggers potentially dangerous diarrhea, vomiting, experts say
Source: HealthDay
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Childhood Immunization, Infant and Newborn Care, Rotavirus Infections (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - January 13, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Rotavirus Vaccination Coverage Remains Inconsistent Rotavirus Vaccination Coverage Remains Inconsistent
Health departments can use immunization information systems to find sources of infection in the community and identify providers who may benefit from education about the rotavirus vaccine. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - January 12, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics News Source Type: news
More Rotavirus Vaccination Means Less Rotavirus
The more children who are vaccinated against rotavirus at your pediatrician's office, the less likely it is that your child will be exposed to the gastrointestinal illness, a new study has concluded. That might sound like a no-brainer, but with vaccine coverage as low as 10 percent at some practices included in this study, these findings have significant implications for children unable to be vaccinated against rotavirus. Kids were more than three times more likely to have rotavirus if they were patients at a location where less than 40 percent of other patients received at least one dose of the rotavirus vaccine (compared...
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - January 12, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Tara Haelle Source Type: news
