Now a more efficacious, inexpensive malaria vaccine
The R21/MatrixM malaria vaccine developed by the University of Oxford, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, has been recommended
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Quality of active TB case finding suboptimal in India
At the national level, 9.3% of the population were screened, just 1% of the screened were tested and 3.7% of
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Missed childhood TB cases impede achieving 2025 goal
Nearly 0.34 million children <15 years of age in India are estimated to get TB disease every year. While children in this age group are estimated to contribute about 13% of the total TB caseload, only 6% are notified
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Explained: Can improved nutrition help prevent TB?
With undernutrition the most prevalent risk factor for tuberculosis, weight gain leads to a reduction in TB cases and mortality
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In TB detection, smear microscopy’s share still holds sway
According to the WHO Global TB report 2022, over 40% of people with TB across the world were not diagnosed in 2021. In India, a large number of people with TB were not diagnosed even prior to the pandemic
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A new diarrhoea-causing parasite found in Kolkata
NICED found nearly 5% of patients with diarrhoea were caused by different Entamoeba species and over 3% of patients were infected with E. moshkovskii
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The case for India switching from the oral to the inactivated polio vaccine
As long as wild poliovirus is present and any country continues to use the oral vaccine, the risk of polio emergence is real in a globalised village
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Unethical for India to continue using polio-causing oral vaccine
Switching from trivalent to bivalent OPV vaccine and introducing one dose of IPV was supposed to eliminate all type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus cases, but such cases only increased sharply
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Intensity of extreme rainfall events estimated to increase by 15%
The intensity and frequency of extreme precipitation events is expected to increase as global warming continues to affect the planet
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Multiple spaceflights with shorter recovery time impact brain structure
Longer space missions and shorter inter-mission recovery time, induce fluid changes in the brain that may not return to normal before subsequent flights
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Genetic changes power H5N1 virus spread, severity in animals
There is a grave risk of sustained transmission in humans once the virus collects a few mutations while spreading among mammals
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FDA approves first vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus
On May 3, FDA approved the first vaccine — Arexvy — for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to lower respiratory tract disease in people older than 60 years
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Global polio targets set for 2023 unlikely to be met
Since 1988, when the World Health Assembly established the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), wild poliovirus subtype-2 and subtype-3 have
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