http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A child has contracted polio for the first time in Pakistan's militant-infested tribal belt since the Taliban banned vaccinations a year ago, a UN official said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-polio-case-pakistan-waziristan-taliban.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 06 May 2013 05:05:17 EST news287035506 Hundreds of scientists, doctors and other experts from around the world launched the Scientific Declaration on Polio Eradication today, declaring that an end to the paralyzing disease is achievable and endorsing a comprehensive new strategy to secure a lasting polio-free world by 2018. The declaration's launch coincides with the 58th anniversary of the announcement of Jonas Salk's revolutionary vaccine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-polio-eradication-urgent-declare-global.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:54:06 EST news284896438 Pakistani health officials Monday called for infants leaving the country to be issued polio vaccinations at airports after virus samples linked to a southern Pakistani city were discovered in Egypt. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-polio-virus-egypt-linked-pakistan.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:01:56 EST news278006511 Pakistan is providing paramilitary and police support to polio vaccinations being resumed discreetly in the northwest after a series of attacks on medical workers, officials said Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-pakistan-resumes-polio-vaccines-tight.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:18:17 EST news276498489 More than 3.5 million Pakistani children missed out on polio vaccination this week in a campaign overshadowed by the deaths of nine immunisation workers, a UN official said Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-million-pakistani-children-polio-vaccine.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:00:38 EST news275317228 Pakistan has witnessed a sharp drop in the number of families refusing to get their children vaccinated against polio, officials said Monday, while lamenting that nearly half a million children were left unvaccinated. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-fall-polio-vaccination-cases-pakistan.html Health Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:53:14 EST news270132766 Pakistan Tuesday claimed progress in vaccinating thousands of children against polio in a tribal area bordering Afghanistan which had been inaccessible due to unrest for about three years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-pakistan-tribal-polio-vaccination.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:30:01 EST news265972154 Around 22,000 Pakistani children are at risk in Karachi after the World Health Organization suspended polio vaccinations over a spate of bloody shootings, a UN official warned Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-polio-suspension-pakistan-children.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 02 Aug 2012 09:38:42 EST news263119116 Too few children have received sufficient doses of vaccine to wipe out polio in Pakistan and Afghanistan, two of only three countries in the world where endemic polio has yet to be eliminated, according to new research published online first in the Lancet. The findings suggest that the newly introduced bivalent oral poliovirus vaccine has the potential to eliminate polio in these countries if sufficient numbers of children could be reached by vaccination programs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-unvaccinated-children-lack-effective-vaccines.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:30:01 EST news260552540