Indian Firm Develops New Vaccine to Fight Typhoid FeverIndian Firm Develops New Vaccine to Fight Typhoid Fever
Indian pharmaceutical company Bharat Biotech says it has developed a fourth-generation typhoid vaccine that will give long-term protection to infants and adults. Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - August 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
Bharat Biotech launches conjugate typhoid vaccine
Bharat Biotech launched the world’s first clinically proven conjugate Typhoid vaccine ‘Typbar-TCV’, which offers long-term protection. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - August 26, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Uncovering Typhoid's Lethal Secret
Typhoid fever is one of the oldest documented diseases known to have afflicted mankind but what makes it so lethal has remained a mystery for centuries. In a study appearing online in the journal Nature, Yale researchers offer an explanation of how the devastating disease marked by delirium and stupor still kills 200,000 people every year - and also suggests the basis of a future vaccine. The culprit appears to be a powerful toxin possessed by Salmonella typhi, the bacterium that causes typhoid fever... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 12, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Tropical Diseases Source Type: news
Typhoid's lethal secret revealed
(Yale University) Typhoid fever is one of the oldest documented diseases known to have afflicted mankind but what makes it so lethal has remained a mystery for centuries. In a study appearing online July 10 in the journal Nature, Yale researchers offer an explanation of how the devastating disease marked by delirium and stupor still kills 200,000 people every year -- and also suggests the basis of a future vaccine. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - July 10, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
How to discover an antibiotic: a historian's guide | Vanessa Heggie
Given our pressing need for new antibiotics, or a whole new class of antibiotic-like drugs, perhaps we ought to try learning lessons from the history of penicillin (it might even help someone win the new Longitude Prize!)Historians of science and medicine are often terrible killjoys when it comes to great stories about discovery and genius. We've been quick to point out that the apocryphal story of Fleming discovering penicillin mould 'by accident' when it blew in through a window and landed on a discarded petri dish is, well, apocryphal. We're less unanimous about the way penicillin became a drug. Although the 'Oxford Gro...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 17, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Vanessa Heggie Tags: Blogposts guardian.co.uk History of science Source Type: news
Gut Bacteria Play Key Role In Vaccination
The bacteria that live in the human gut may play an important role in immune response to vaccines and infection by wild-type enteric organisms, according to two recent studies resulting from a collaborative effort between the University of Maryland School of Medicine Institute for Genome Sciences and the Center for Vaccine Development. The first study, published online in PLOS ONE,* examines the impact of an oral typhoid vaccination on the microbiota, or populations of bacteria, in the human gut... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 9, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Immune System / Vaccines Source Type: news
MSF speech at the UN Syria donor conference
Six months after the first international donor conference for Syria, humanitarian aid is failing. Security and living conditions have deteriorated dramatically. The population living in areas controlled by opposition groups have almost no access to official international aid. Across the country, there are enclaves surrounded by intense fighting, where virtually no aid is reaching the people trapped inside.While international attention has focused on chemical weapons, our teams on the ground are seeing that it is the bombing, the consequent displacement of millions of people, and the targeting and collapse of the Syrian hea...
Source: MSF News - June 7, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Syria Frontpage Violence NEWS Opinion Source Type: news
Typhoid Fever Affects Young International Travelers Typhoid Fever Affects Young International Travelers
Children traveling to countries where typhoid fever is endemic have the highest risk of contracting the disease; families should be counseled on the availability of vaccines. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - May 4, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics News Source Type: news
Humanitarian crisis grows
MSF Canada’s executive director Stephen Cornish recently returned from a two-week visit to Syria, Lebanon and Turkey. We talked to him about the humanitarian situation inside Syria, as well as the situation of Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries.
Can you describe some of the healthcare needs you witnessed?
We usually only hear about people killed by shelling and mortars. But there are many silent casualties of the conflict. Many civilians die because they don’t have access to healthcare. People with treatable diseases such as diabetes or cancer can no longer get the treatment they need.
An increasing number o...
Source: MSF News - April 18, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Syria NEWS Violence Source Type: news
Lassa fever: why there are more public health questions than answers
The Lassa virus can wipe out entire families. It is transmitted by rats and is endemic to west Africa – so why is there no vaccine? Lina Moses shares her experiences of working in Sierra LeoneI'm in a village in eastern Sierra Leone staring at a row of dead rats snared in branches, leaves and grass. The contraptions are called funnel traps, or tolei in the local Mende dialect. We're hoping these devices and other easily accessible or producible materials will lower the rodent populations in villages sufficiently to prevent Lassa fever.With a DfID-funded project called Wash (water, sanitation health), Facility Sierra Leon...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 21, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Guardian Professional World news Infectious diseases Malaria and infectious diseases Medical research Microbiology Sierra Leone Editorial Global development professionals network Policy and advocacy Africa Science Source Type: news
Vaccine update: January 2013
Source: Department of Health (DH)
Area: News
The November 2012 issue of the Vaccine Update bulletin is now available. The current issue highlights the following:
. Flu surges in North America
. Catch it. Bin it. Kill it campaign
. Clarification on codes for flu vaccination uptake monitoring
. Vaccine wastage
. Migrant health in the primary care setting, with a focus on infectious diseases - training videos
. Vaccine supply (hepatitis A and typhoid)
. Green Book chapter update (Source: NeLM - News)
Source: NeLM - News - January 21, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Haiti
the Major disasters in the last 10 years, 2000 – 2010:
2001 – Gujarat Earthquake, India 20,000 Deaths
2003 – Bam Earthquake, Iran 30,000 Deaths
2004 – Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami 230,000 Deaths
2005 – Kashmir Earthquake, Pakistan 85,000 Deaths
2005 – Hurricane Katrina, USA 1,300 Deaths
2008 – Sichuan China Earthquake, Chine 70,000 Deaths
200...
Source: Wilderness Medicine Newsletter - February 5, 2010 Category: Rural Health Authors: wildernessmedicinenewsletter Tags: Disaster Medicine Emergency Medicine Environmental Emergencies wilderness emergency medicine Wilderness Medicine wilderness medicine newsletter Earthquake Haiti Earthquake response resuers in Haiti Source Type: news
