World Health Organization (WHO) and a group of more than 25 partner organizations unveiled a new strategy to fight some of the most neglected tropical diseases that destroy the lives and health of poor people.
Merck & Co., Inc. announced that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted unanimously to recommend that adults 60 years of age and older be vaccinated with ZOSTAVAX? [Zoster Vaccine Live (Oka/Merck)] to help prevent shingles (herpes zoster), a frequently painful disease marked by a blistering rash.
Young people who get a new meningitis shot may be at a slightly higher risk of developing a paralyzing side effect, federal researchers said. Even so, U.S. health officials said the benefits far outweigh the risk of getting the rare condition, Guillain Barre syndrome. They are not backing off their recommendation that most students be vaccinated.
Mrs. A. R., Age: 46 years., visited on 28-05-2005. The patient was suffering from severe pain in her right hip joint since 6th April, 2005. The patient was admitted in a well equipped hospital on 12 – 4 – 2005, where she was treated till 6 – 5 – 2005. In the hospital she was found to be suffering from various complications/diseases such as jaundice, bilateral pleural effusion, high count of leucocytes, hepatomegaly and cholelithiasis etc. She was treated accordingly for these complaints/diseases. Her blood samples were tested daily there are 42 blood reports in a span of 25 days, Ultrasound scanning and echocardiography with color Doppler study were also done. Lot of medication was done and was discharged from the hospital with not a feather of relief in her pain of right hip joint for which she was admitted. When seen on 28 – 5 – 2005 her condition was as described hereunder:
1. – Great weakness of memory.
1. – Great mental and bodily weakness, deficient memory, child cannot remember or be taught.
1. – Intense throbbing headache after excessive hemorrhage.
1. – Vertigo, particularly when lying down or when turning over in bed.
1. – Full of suppressed grief, seems weighed down by it, broods over imaginary troubles.
1. – Hemorrhoids protruding like a bunch of grapes, swollen and blue, with burning and soreness.