An antibiotic that is widely prescribed in India to combat bacterial sinus infections and bronchitis has been found to be bad for heart. A study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday, has found a 2.5-fold higher risk of cardiovascular death in the first five days of taking Azithromycin - commonly called Z-pack - compared with another common antibiotic or no antibiotic at all. Though it was previously considered...
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The spreading superbug
-The Business Standard Still waiting for a crackdown on antibiotic over-prescription According to a recent study in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, the drug-resistant bacterial strain known as New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 1, or NDM-1, has spread to 40 countries. This is quite remarkable, given that it was only discovered in 2008 in the UK, among patients who had recently been hospitalised in India. The “superbug”, as it is commonly known, is...
More »16.8 lakh children under five in India died of infectious diseases in 2010
-PTI Study claims more than half of them died in the first 28 days of their life More than 16.8 lakh children under five years died of infectious, but preventable, diseases in India in 2010 and more than half of them could not complete the first month of their life, a new study has claimed. Of the total deaths, 52 per cent, or about 0.875 million, were among the children who died in...
More »Preterm Births: Numbers Soar Globally, U.S. Ranks 130 Of 184-Sharon Begley
* 11 percent of babies born premature in 2010, 1.1 million died * Experts estimate 75 percent could be saved * U.S. rate at 12 pct, fueled by later births, fertility treatments NEW YORK, May 2 (Reuters) - The world's developed countries have seen their average rate of premature births double to 6 percent since 1995, despite efforts to reduce the phenomenon, according to a report released on Wednesday. Worldwide, 15 million of the...
More »Half the child deaths in India due to premature birth
-The Deccan Herald Nearly half of all child deaths in India are caused due to premature births, making it the second leading cause in the country, said a report by international NGO Save the Children. The number one cause is Pneumonia. The report added that India has the highest number of children dying of preterm births.“All newborns are vulnerable but preterm babies are acutely so,” says UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who...
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