Doctors' meet to focus on ICUs
Times of India
He elaborated, "The best example of this is the swine-flu that had gripped the city and initially most of the doctors were not aware of ways to treat the patient. Also, handling an emergency like the recent case of the Swargate bus incident is a ...

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WHO asks India to conduct nationwide study on MDR-TB
Times of India
However, WHO rued the fact that India, which has a major burden of MDR-TB, still does not have national level data on this serious air-borne disease. It said, "Whereas China has been able to conduct a nationwide survey, India and the Russian Federation ...

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A highly infectious numbers game
Hindustan Times
Over the past few years, estimates for almost all major killer infections - HIV that causes AIDS, tuberculosis, bird flu, swine flu, to name a just few - have been swinging between what There's actually a maniacal method in the madness.

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Doubts raised over Swine flu wonder cure
IBNLive.com
Mumbai: Billions of dollars were spent by countries across the world in stockpiling Tamiflu during the 2009 Swine Flu pandemic. India was one of 80 countries to stockpile the medication - buying 30 million doses. But now, a two year review done by the ...
New study questions Tamiflu's effectivenessDaily Mail

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Mumbai's XXtreme TB is neither new nor sudden
Daily News & Analysis
By R Krishna | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA Mumbai has been in a state of panic for the last two weeks after doctors at Hinduja Hospital reported the first cases from India of Extremely Drug Resistant TB (XXDR), which is immune to all first-line and ...

Serum Institute completes Phase-1 of trials for trivalent seasonal flu vaccine
Indian Express
Administered via an intra nasal spray, the vaccine aims at protecting against swine flu and influenza A and B type of viruses. “We are awaiting permission from the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) for starting the second phase,” Dr Rajiv Dhere, ...

Clamour for declaring TB notifiable disease grows louder
Times of India
Highly infectious diseases such as plague, polio, H5N1 (bird flu) and H1N1 ( swine flu) are in the list of notifiable diseases. The clamour to give TB the status of a notifiable disease has got louder following the advent of totally drug-resistant TB ...

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The News Matrix: Tuesday 17 January 2012
The Independent
The manufacturer of Tamiflu, the drug stockpiled by the NHS to treat swine flu, withheld data about its side-effects, a report claims. The Cochrane Collaboration's study questions claims by Roche that Tamiflu reduces the number of patients who need to ...

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Deadly global pathogens to be screened at entry points of international traffic
Times of India
Ministry says increase in the volume of traffic has led to an emergence and re-emergence of a number of deadly diseases of international concern like SARS, swine flu, avian Influenza and Ebola. "These diseases spread very rapidly and can assume the ...

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Swine flu puts health authorities on tenterhooks
Times of India
Now that the out-patient departments dedicated to swine flu in all the state-run hospitals are inactive and the Government of India also stopped active surveillance, the authorities said that the decision on the matter would be taken after Makar ...
No major swine flu threatDeccan Chronicle

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