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TopicHepatitis B

Topic: hepatitis B

India second highest in hepatitis B & C after China, says WHO report

Document reveals chronic hepatitis B infection accounts for 40 to 50 percent of a type of liver cancer and 20 to 30 percent of cirrhosis in India.

Several immunisation drives hit, Union govt prods Bharat Biotech over ‘delay’ in vaccine supplies

Health ministry points at shortfall in supply of 3 vaccines, for Japanese Encephalitis, Hepatitis B & rotavirus. It also sought reason for delay in letter to Bharat Biotech.

What killed Beethoven? Genome sequencing suggests it was Hepatitis B, booze or both

A study by an international team of researchers, published in Current Biology, may have found the real cause of the composer's death by testing 8 hair samples believed to be his.

169 cases, only children affected — what’s behind mystery hepatitis outbreak in Europe

WHO says acute hepatitis of unknown origin, in kids aged between 1 month and 16 years, reported from 11 countries in Europe. Cases started multiplying over last month.

Pakistan has a new public health deadline. And it’s all about syringes

Pakistan has been beset with blood-borne infections like HIV-AIDS and Hepatitis B and C since the 1980s. But that could soon change.

Experimental hepatitis drug speeds up Covid recovery by 4 times, finds Toronto study

Researchers from the Toronto Centre for Liver Disease gave Covid-19 patients peginterferon-lambda, which is typically used in-vitro against hepatitis B and hepatitis C virus.

Vaccination averted 45% deaths due to 10 pathogens between 2000 & 2019 — Lancet study

Most of the impact in the 98 low and middle income nations studied is concentrated in a reduction in mortality among children younger than 5 years, notably from measles.

Guinea pigs cured of Ebola with antibodies, raising hopes for humans

Once the best antibodies for fighting a disease have been identified, they can be made in bulk and used as a treatment.

WHO’s list of tests could lead to effective medical care in India, say experts

Doctors say list could help streamline tests and improve disease diagnosis, but warn implementation could be problem in over-populated environment.

On Camera

Every time the Congress thinks it has a ‘revolutionary’ idea, it shoots its own foot

From Sam Pitroda talking about inheritance tax to Goan candidate saying the Indian Constitution was 'forced' on Goa, Congress has been having its own foot-in-the-mouth moments.

JP Morgan CEO praises ‘tough leader’ Modi — ‘has taken 400 million people out of poverty’

Jamie Dimon also lauded India's Aadhaar recognition system, broad availability of banking services & country's 'unbelievable' education system & infrastructure.

Rafale to Exercise Garuda, a look at Indo-French defence ties as Chief of Defence Staff visits France

Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.