KANPUR: Though the government agencies are spending millions of rupees to fight polio, a couple of instances have surfaced where people had refused get polio drops administered to their children. In the first incident reported from Naglabhara village in Kannauj district, locals facing shortage of schools and proper roads boycotted the polio campaign on March […]
OPV cannot eradicate polio from India: do we need any further evidence?
Paul Y. Maharaja Agrasen Hospital, Paediatrics, Vidhyadhar Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302023, India. dryashpaul2003@yahoo.com Abstract: Polio eradication programme was launched in India in 1995, and polio eradication was expected to occur by 2000. Remarkable decline in polio incidence occurred, but, polio was not eradicated. Majority of polio cases are occurring in two states viz., Uttar Pradesh […]
HPV vaccine tolerated across three dosing schedules in Vietnam
Neuzil KM. JAMA. 2011;305:1424-1431. The quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine was immunogenic and well tolerated on alternative dosing schedules and comparable with the safety profiles of standard vaccine schedules among adolescent girls in Vietnam, according to new findings presented during a Journal of the American Medical Association media briefing. “Most low-resource countries do not have adolescent […]
Puberty at 8? Yes, it’s a fact
By Priya Adhyaru Majithia Girls are facing puberty at the tender age of eight when they are as yet unaware of the physiological, psychological and social impact of this major change in their life. Blame obesity, stress and wrong food, say experts. They said that this had forced the medical fraternity to lower vaccination recommendation […]
Updates on the management of cervical pre-cancer discussed at Obs-Gyne expo
Currently cervical cancer accounts for 10% of all cancers worldwide, ranking as the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in the world. According to Prof. F. Xavier Bosch from the Cancer Epidemiology and Research Program at the Catalan Institute of Oncology in Barcelona, the idea that the MENA region is at low risk from gynaecological cancers […]
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