Hyderabad: Ella Foundation has won a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a virus against polio after the phasing out of the oral poliovirus (OPV) vaccine, the Hyderabad-based scientific research group said on Thursday. "Such a vaccine could carry the beneficial effects of an oral polio vaccine - namely safety, efficacy, ease of manufacture, distribution and administration along with the safety...
01:50 PM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Pulse polio program may be a success, but are experts focusing too much on vaccination? Perhaps even overdosing some children? Shortly after being vaccinated for polio, four-year-old Ansh developed paralysis. Doctors concluded it wasn't related to the vaccine or polio, which often causes paralysis. A few months on, Ansh is better now. But some doctors are sounding a warning note. In a study published in the Indian...
09:24 AM, Apr 26, 2012
Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who is Unicef's brand ambassador against polio, says he will be honoured for his contribution to the cause. "And the organisation that acknowledges social work for a cause, will honour yours truly for the work done as UNICEF ambassador for the fight against polio, which as you know has had some rather encouraging achievements," Amitabh wrote on his blog bigb.bigadda.com. In February, the World Health Organisation...
04:38 PM, Apr 06, 2012
New Delhi: Laying emphasis on strengthening of routine immunisation, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said the lessons learnt from success of polio campaign could help eliminate measles-related child deaths and neonatal tetanus from the country. In his valedictory address at the two-day Polio Summit here today, Azad said there has to be continued vigil and effective emergency preparedness as India cannot afford to let its guards now on the...
10:40 PM, Feb 26, 2012
Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad made the announcement after most of the environmental samples for polio virus tested negative for the first time in 2010. ...
01:29 PM, Feb 25, 2012
New Delhi: India, which has been polio-free for over a year now, was today taken off the list of polio endemic countries by the World Health Organisation. This announcement was made by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad at the polio summit 2012 in New Delhi in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Azad said he has received a letter this morning stating that the "WHO has taken India's name...
11:26 AM, Feb 25, 2012
Howrah: India has completed one entire year without registering a single polio case in any part of the country. Bringing down the number from 2 lakh a year to zero is a commendable achievement and an example before other countries to follow. But there is hardly any room for complacency. Two-and-a-half-year-old Ruksaar from Shahpara village in Howrah district is the last registered case of polio in India, and the credit ...
07:18 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Islamabad: India must receive "due appreciation" as it has been a year since its last case of polio was reported, said a leading Pakistani daily. An editorial in the Dawn on Saturday said that India is marking the passage of a full year since its last case of polio was reported. "If this trend continues, and no new or previously undisclosed case of the dreaded virus is reported, the country...
11:20 AM, Jan 14, 2012
India has completed one year without a single case of polio and the WHO has said that other countries need to emulate. ...
11:27 PM, Jan 13, 2012
On India Positive, India completes a year without any polio case and a policeman fines a Home Ministry official. ...
11:18 PM, Jan 13, 2012
Can you imagine a country that added 200000 crippled children each year? Little children. Under 5 years of age. Those who just wanted to spend ...
07:51 PM, Jan 13, 2012
WHO India Representative Dr Nata Manabde has congratulated India on its no-new-polio cases milestone, saying that India was ahead of prediction. "It's a major milestone. India's ahead of prediction. It has made a huge difference. Two years India had the largest number of cases more than other countries put together. Size and scale were the challenge. India is no longer a threat to other countries," he said. ...
12:45 PM, Jan 13, 2012
Washington: The United Nations, leading world organisations, including the Bill and Milinda Gates Foundation celebrated India's first polio-free year and termed it as a major milestone in their fight against this dreaded disease. The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan, termed it as the "greatest public health achievement" of India, the Bill Gates, of Bill and Milinda Gates Foundation described it as a major milestone in the global fight...
09:10 AM, Jan 13, 2012
New Delhi: India has marked a significant milestone, with no new polio cases reported for one year. It's a result of a massive health programme,the routine pulse polio immunisation program. In the last few years India has mobilized 24 lakh volunteers and 1.5 lakh front line workers in an effort that's cost a 1000 crore rupees every year. "It's a big milestone - considering that there was a time when...
06:06 AM, Jan 13, 2012
She was two when she was diagnosed with polio but nothing deterred Geeta and at 49, she is independent, and even drives her own car. ...
09:04 AM, Dec 12, 2011
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09:08 PM, Dec 10, 2011
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I have always been asked a lot of questions on who all celebs I have met at my work. Shahrukh? Big B?.. dadada...and I have ...
05:25 PM, Oct 27, 2011
The Spanish Formula One racing driver visited the polio affected kids ward at a city hospital to support the cause. ...
05:18 PM, Oct 27, 2011
New Delhi: Only one polio case has been detected in the country this year making it the longest polio-free period ever since eradication efforts were launched, the government said on Sunday. The only case of polio reported this year was from Howrah district in West Bengal on January 13. As many as 39 cases were reported in the country during the same period last year. "For the first time no...
10:11 PM, Oct 23, 2011
New Delhi: India's dealing with a different sort of cross-border threat. Indians are at risk because of an infectious strain of polio in Pakistan. This year alone, Pakistan has registered 84 new cases of Polio - 83 are of the more dangerous, P1 strain. According to a statement issued by the UNICEF, "India is surrounded by countries that still have polio virus transmission. Afghanistan and Pakistan have never stopped polio...
08:47 AM, Sep 20, 2011
