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A new challenge: introducing injectable polio vaccine-N Gopal Raj

-The Hindu For India, which has successfully kept naturally-occurring ‘wild' polioviruses at bay for three whole years, a new challenge looms. India is among 140 countries that rely on the oral polio vaccine (OPV). These countries have now been asked to introduce an injectable inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) into their routine childhood immunisation programme by the end of next year. The oral vaccine, which is cheap and easily administered, uses live but weakened...

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Agriculture turning into nightmare for small farmers-Nagesh Kini

-MoneyLife.in India, the world's second largest food producer, is witnessing growing distress and declining confidence in agriculture as most small and landless farmers, with less of a stake, are found to quit farming The recent unseasonal heavy rains, thunder and hailstorms originating from unusually intense western disturbances from the Mediterranean interacting with the south-easterly winds from the Bay of Bengal have ravaged the due-for-harvesting chana, lentils and wheat in Madhya Pradesh,...

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Rulebook on TB treatment -GS Mudur

-The Telegraph New Delhi: India's health ministry will tomorrow release the country's first-ever rulebook on tuberculosis that medical experts hope will help curb wrong treatment in the private sector and improve results in public-sector clinics. The Standards for TB Care in India (STCI) prescribe ways to diagnose and treat the disease, a bacterial infection that requires multiple drugs to be administered for at least six months - and up to two years...

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After battle with MDR-TB, they emerged winners -Malathy Iyer

-The Times of India mumbai: "It is a miracle I'm alive," said 31-year-old Borivli resident Deepti Chavan, who was given six months to live in 2004. Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) had literally eaten away her left lung and doctors were skeptical she would live for long. Drug-resistant TB is emerging as one of the biggest health challenges-more and more are getting infected (see box) even as the number of effective medicines is shrinking....

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Hill of death -Alok Gupta

-Down to Earth More than 200 people in 14 villages near Roro hill in Jharkhand are dying slowly because of an abandoned asbestos mine During a film shoot at the beautiful Roro hill in Jharkhand's Chaibasa district, the villain takes out his gun to kill a young man. The moment he shoots, onlooker Rango Deogam bursts into laughter and yells at the camera crew, "You are shooting a death scene on the...

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