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Union health ministry has asked the states and Union Territories (UTs) to closely monitor trends of influenza-like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory illness (SARI), following reports indicating a surge in respiratory illness among children in northern China. It also reviewed the preparedness against respiratory illnesses across the country. Union health secretary Sudhansh Pant advised the states and UTs to “immediately” review public health and hospital preparedness measures, including availability of hospital beds, drugs and vaccines for influenza, medical oxygen, antibiotics, personal protective equipment, testing kits and reagents, functionality of oxygen plants and ventilators, and infection control practices in health facilities. The health ministry said it is “closely monitoring” the situation and that there is “no need for any alarm”. States and Union Territories have also been advised to implement ‘Operational guidelines for revised surveillance strategy in the context of Covid-19’ shared earlier this year which provides for integrated surveillance of respiratory pathogens, it said. They have also been asked to ensure that the spread of ILI and SARI be closely monitored by the district and state surveillance units of Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP), particularly among children and adolescents.

In a series of moves experts say signal a shift in how developing countries deal with pharmaceuticals, South Africa, Colombia and others have recently adopted a more combative approach towards drugmakers, pushing back on policies that deny treatment to...

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struggling to breathe? Are they having long spells of fatigue and listlessness, and exhibiting a gradual disinterest in food? It’s time to pay a visit to the vet. According to a Today.com report, several dogs in the US are coming down with what seems like a mysterious yet near-fatal condition. The illness has claimed the lives of some dogs already, putting several seasoned vets at a wit’s end. The dogs start with a cough that never seems to go away and ends with serious pneumonia. Often the dog does not respond to the first line of action — antibiotics.

respiratory infections among children particularly those from kindergarten and primary school. Symptoms range from that of influenza to pneumonia. Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a bacterium that can cause lung infection, leading to a condition known as atypical pneumonia. Understanding this bacterium, its manifestations, preventive measures, and available treatments is crucial for effective management.

₹1 Crore Cost On Every Product Claiming False Cure". The Supreme Court was listening to petitions filed by the Indian Medical Association (IMA), when Justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and Prashant Kumar Mishra issued a stern warning to the company co-founded by Baba Ramdev. “All such false and misleading advertisements of Patanjali Ayurveda have to stop immediately.

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inaccurate," the Union Ministry of Health Family Welfare said on Saturday. There have been some media reports alleging that an estimated 11 lakh children in India missed their first measles vaccine dose in 2022, according to a report published by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

₹1,206 crore. Out of this an investment of ₹714 crore has been achieved. Fourteen projects producing 37 products have been commissioned, and domestic manufacturing of high-end medical devices has started.

Cyrus Poonawalla, Chairman and Managing Director of the city-based vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India (SII), suffered mild cardiac arrest and underwent an angioplasty procedure in a hospital here, doctors said on Friday. Poonawalla, 82, suffered cardiac arrest on Thursday. Dr Purvez Grant, a cardiologist from Ruby Hall Clinic said, «Cyrus Poonawalla suffered mild cardiac arrest and is recovering fast.» Ali Daruwala, advisor of the hospital, said in a statement, «Dr Cyrus Poonawalla suffered mild cardiac arrest on November 16 and was admitted to the Ruby Hall Clinic early morning on Friday.» «Dr Poonawalla underwent angioplasty under the supervision of Dr Purvez Grant, Dr Makle, and Dr Abhijeet Khardekar.

Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched two ambitious initiatives to mark the Jan Jatiya Gaurav Diwas, celebrated on November 15 every year on the birth anniversary of tribal icon Birsa Munda. PM Janman, aimed at social justice to the tribals with a budget allocation of ₹24,000 crore as well as the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra — a drive to create awareness and facilitate saturation of welfare schemes that will continue till January 26 across the country — were launched by the PM at Kunti in Jharkhand. Modi also released the 15th instalment of PM-KISAN funds to farmers.

(Reuters) -Catalent said on Wednesday it expected a majority of its current and upcoming production capacity for pre-filled syringes until fiscal year 2026 to soon be booked out, driven by booming demand for newer weight-loss drugs.

A new COVID-19 subvariant called HV.1 is gaining traction across Canada, but whether or not it is more contagious than past variants remains to be seen, according to health experts.

Nearly 5 million chickens, turkeys and other birds have been slaughtered this year because of a persistent bird flu outbreak that began in 2022, but as big as that number may sound, it’s far less than the number of birds killed last year and that means...

(Reuters) — Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) will cut 500 jobs at its Sandwich, Kent site in the U.K. as part of a cost-cutting effort, the drugmaker said on Tuesday.

Hindustan Times reported. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the HV.1 variant which is also dominating EG.5 aka Eris accounted for an estimated 25.2% of all newly diagnosed cases during the two-week period till October 28. In July, the HV.1 variant accounted for only 0.5% of the total coronavirus cases.

Microsoft and its counterparts are actively combating disinformation, specifically through the utilization of Artificial Intelligence (AI), as per the report. Reportedly, Smith conveyed that Microsoft and other companies are accomplishing this task "by developing technological tools that aid in identifying manipulated, modified, and altered content," as translated into French by radio France Inter. "We are getting very good at identifying a Russian campaign, like when they tried to tell people not to get the Covid vaccine.

medical education affordable, said Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Friday. He informed that the MD seats have increased by 93% from 31,185 to 60,202 in the time period of nine years. Singh flagged off a 32-seater bus donated to AIIMS Jammu on Friday.