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World Meningitis Day: How Early Detection And Vaccination Can Save Lives
This article explores how early detection, awareness of symptoms, and vaccinations can significantly reduce the mortality rate and improve the quality of life for meningitis survivors.
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Tuberculosis: How Does TB Affect Your Living?
This article explores how tuberculosis impacts daily living, the long-term effects on health, how it spreads, and what precautions should be taken to manage and prevent the disease.
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Man Complains Of Ear Ache, Dies Of Meningitis Days Later
An MRI scan revealed that Gareth Rowlands' brain was significantly damaged due to the meningitis infection.
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Chinese Vaccine Maker Has World's Fastest Growing Fortune
Chongqing Zhifei Biological Products Co. shares have surged 80 per cent since the vaccine maker disclosed at the end of June that China's drug regulator approved clinical human testing of a Covid-19 vaccine.
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Health Ministry Left With No Vaccines For Haj Pilgrims: Report
The Health Ministry is grappling with paucity of meningitis vaccines for Haj pilgrims as the only firm manufacturing them was asked to stop production last year after contamination was detected in their oral polio vaccines.
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20-Year-Old Indian-Origin Student Dies Of Rare Meningitis Virus In UK
A 20-year-old Indian-origin in the UK pharmacology student has died suddenly after getting infected by a rare Meningitis virus despite displaying none of the visible symptoms of the disease, according to a media report.
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Deadly Meningitis Strain Virtually Eliminated in Much of Africa: Study
A new vaccine has virtually eliminated meningitis A in 16 African countries, but children will remain vulnerable to the disease which can kill or cause severe brain damage, unless governments routinely immunise them, experts said yoday.
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Cost of Bacterial Meningitis Vaccine Reduced
Hilleman Laboratories has made developments with respect to increased efficacy and reduced cost of Bacterial Meningitis vaccine and published a scientific report based on the synthesis of the meningitis vaccine for Neisseria Meningitidis serogroup X.
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UK Rolls Out World's First Meningitis B Vaccination Programme
Britain on Tuesday became the first country to implement a vaccination programme for all newborn babies against meningitis B, which is fatal in one in 10 cases.
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CCI Imposes Rs 64 Cr Fine on GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has slapped a penalty of Rs 64 crore on drug makers GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi for collusive bidding in supply of a meningitis vaccine to the government for Haj pilgrims.
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Pneumonia vaccine protects HIV patients
A vaccine for pneumonia and meningitis has been found to be effective in offering protection against re-infection in HIV-infected adults.
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Vaccine is approved for child infections
The FDA on Wednesday approved Prevnar 13, an expanded version of a vaccine to protect children.
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Meningitis vaccine provides lasting protection
The meningitis C vaccine program introduced in the UK in 1999 has been successful in bringing down disease rates. A recent study indicates that vaccine remains effective 4 years later, provided that it was given at the appropriate age.
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World Meningitis Day: How Early Detection And Vaccination Can Save Lives
This article explores how early detection, awareness of symptoms, and vaccinations can significantly reduce the mortality rate and improve the quality of life for meningitis survivors.
-
Tuberculosis: How Does TB Affect Your Living?
This article explores how tuberculosis impacts daily living, the long-term effects on health, how it spreads, and what precautions should be taken to manage and prevent the disease.
-
Man Complains Of Ear Ache, Dies Of Meningitis Days Later
An MRI scan revealed that Gareth Rowlands' brain was significantly damaged due to the meningitis infection.
-
Chinese Vaccine Maker Has World's Fastest Growing Fortune
Chongqing Zhifei Biological Products Co. shares have surged 80 per cent since the vaccine maker disclosed at the end of June that China's drug regulator approved clinical human testing of a Covid-19 vaccine.
-
Health Ministry Left With No Vaccines For Haj Pilgrims: Report
The Health Ministry is grappling with paucity of meningitis vaccines for Haj pilgrims as the only firm manufacturing them was asked to stop production last year after contamination was detected in their oral polio vaccines.
-
20-Year-Old Indian-Origin Student Dies Of Rare Meningitis Virus In UK
A 20-year-old Indian-origin in the UK pharmacology student has died suddenly after getting infected by a rare Meningitis virus despite displaying none of the visible symptoms of the disease, according to a media report.
-
Deadly Meningitis Strain Virtually Eliminated in Much of Africa: Study
A new vaccine has virtually eliminated meningitis A in 16 African countries, but children will remain vulnerable to the disease which can kill or cause severe brain damage, unless governments routinely immunise them, experts said yoday.
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Cost of Bacterial Meningitis Vaccine Reduced
Hilleman Laboratories has made developments with respect to increased efficacy and reduced cost of Bacterial Meningitis vaccine and published a scientific report based on the synthesis of the meningitis vaccine for Neisseria Meningitidis serogroup X.
-
UK Rolls Out World's First Meningitis B Vaccination Programme
Britain on Tuesday became the first country to implement a vaccination programme for all newborn babies against meningitis B, which is fatal in one in 10 cases.
-
CCI Imposes Rs 64 Cr Fine on GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has slapped a penalty of Rs 64 crore on drug makers GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi for collusive bidding in supply of a meningitis vaccine to the government for Haj pilgrims.
-
Pneumonia vaccine protects HIV patients
A vaccine for pneumonia and meningitis has been found to be effective in offering protection against re-infection in HIV-infected adults.
-
Vaccine is approved for child infections
The FDA on Wednesday approved Prevnar 13, an expanded version of a vaccine to protect children.
-
Meningitis vaccine provides lasting protection
The meningitis C vaccine program introduced in the UK in 1999 has been successful in bringing down disease rates. A recent study indicates that vaccine remains effective 4 years later, provided that it was given at the appropriate age.
