The fifth country Indonesia pentavalent vaccine manufacturers

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Indonesia became the fifth country in the world as a manufacturer of pentavalent vaccine, developed by PT Bio Farma (Persero) to meet the needs of domestic and foreign markets.

"Pentavalent vaccine is ready for launch in late 2012, our latest breakthrough vaccine production is put Indonesia as the fifth country to produce pentavalent vaccine," said Head of Public Relations of PT Bio Farma (Persero), Nurlaela, in Bandung, Friday.

Pentavalent vaccine is a combination vaccine of the five variants of the vaccine diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, hepatitis B and hermophilusinfluenza type B (HIB).

Other countries are already producing the vaccine, including the United States, Belgium, and France.

According to Lala, pentavalent vaccine will be marketed overseas as it has got the certification from WHO. Through the world's health agencies as well the vaccine will be marketed to countries in the world and of the marketing between businesses.

Latest addition of the Bio Farma vaccine also will meet domestic needs, and is now undergoing the process at the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) to further disseminated and used.

"This vaccine will support the program imuninasi in Indonesia, but also more effective fuller," he said.

Pentavalent production rate itself depends on the needs. In Indonesia, this vaccine targets infants consumed 4.8 million. In addition to the new vaccine, Bio Farma marketing target this year would reach Rp1, 4 billion or growth of 10-15 percent compared to 2011.

Of revenue, the company is the only vaccine in Indonesia is targeting an increase in net profit of Rp408 billion in 2012. In 2011, the company took advantage of the vaccine was Rp303 billion.

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Coca-Cola and Pepsi Changing the Recipe

Saturday, March 10, 2012

California - Two of the largest producers of soft drinks, Coca-Colaand Pepsi soft drinks they replace the recipes in order to avoid thepressure of the laws governing the inclusion of warnings about theproblem of cancer in their product packaging. Issues of healthwarning labels on tobacco products has been implemented. Asquoted by page orange, caramel coloring is one of the supporting materials on the prescription soft drinks will contain low levels of4-methylimidazole, which has been included in the list ofcarcinogenic substances under the laws of California, USA. But therecipes are not reimbursed to the UK or throughout Europe. In termsof legislation, drinks that contain certain levels of carcinogenicmaterials must include cancer warning label. Kingdom of the world'sbeverage company Coca-Cola and Pepsi.Co controlled almost 90 percent of beverages in the U.S. market. Substitution recipes have been created in the process for products sold in California. DianaGarza-Ciarlante, comment Coca-Cola spokesman, said, "While webelieve that no public health risk that wanted a change, we request that suppliers of caramel through this pathway, so that our productsnot be used as a mandatory provision of scientific warnings."American Beverage Association reported, new ideas are formed based on a study of the chemical link to cancer in mice, just add thatthere is no evidence showing the cause of human cancers. While the Food and Drug Administration reported that, a person mustdrink more than 1,000 cans per day in order to achieve the samedose to the cancer in rodents.

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Danger of Trans Fat for Women

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Fried foods can be categorized into saturated fats. The following is one of the reasons why you should avoid all foods containing trans fat is high, especially if you are a woman and an older age. A recent study found that postmenopausal women who are always eating fast food, baked goods and packaging products, more potentially infected with stroke disease by 39 percent. In their research, scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill also received a new discovery that women who take aspirin on a regular basis tend to decrease the risk of stroke significantly. But the researchers caution that the drug does not directly reduce the risk of stroke in women who frequently eat foods high in trans fats. "These findings suggest that you can not eat trans fats by taking aspirin," said Dr. Ka He, who explained that the study only shows the relationship and there is no causal relationship between aspirin use and lower incidence of stroke. "We suggest that further reduce trans fat intake in order to avoid heart disease and stroke," said Ka He, who is a professor of nutrition and epidemiology of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. American Heart Association (AHA) writes, stroke is the fourth leading cause of death and the leading cause of disability in the average adult in the United States. Stroke is formed when the arteries that supply blood to the brain is blocked so that block blood flow and oxygen. As a result, the brain cells to die. Stroke can affect motor skills, speech, and cognitive function, depending on which part of the brain are damaged.Factors that could make the incidence of stroke among the obese, smoking, hypertension and lack of exercise. Drinking lots of alcohol to excess, or not at all, are associated with stroke risk. These findings were published online by the March 1, 2012 in the Annals of Neurology. Researchers analyzed data from a national project known as the Women Health Initiative. They examined the intake of trans fats more than 87,000 women aged 50 to 79 years with a diet that is managed using a database at the University of Minnesota and a questionnaire that measures the consumption of trans fats. Researchers gave the question of how much of the 122 kinds of foods they often eat in the three months prior to the study conducted, the survey after three years later. Medical records be revised every year between 1998 and 2005, and as many as 1049 participants reportedly contracted the stroke during that period. Researchers reported, trans fats contribute greatly to the emergence of cardiovascular disease - one of the causes of the risk of stroke - by raising levels of bad cholesterol and lowers good cholesterol, and may lead to the worst effects on health among all types of fat."Trans fats do not occur naturally, but is commonly found in processed foods due to the mixing of hydrogen in the hydrogenation of vegetable oils," explains Nancy Copperman, director of public health initiatives do North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Great Neck, NY "It's important to note that women who consumed high trans fats also have an unhealthy lifestyle behaviors such as low physical activity, overeating and smoking," says Copperman, who also said that they also have a higher risk of diabetes. For this reason, Copperman suggested that the women run balanced diet and start a healthy lifestyle as a major step in avoiding a potential stroke. Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, women's health expert of heart disease at Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City, adding that trans fats as "toxic" and is a food that should not be consumed at all. He also forced the consumer to always look at food labels for trans fats are sometimes included in the low-fat diet. "Just because it says low-fat diet, does not mean that the food is healthy," said Steinbaum.

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Flu Viruses Newly Found At Bat

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The devil bats are also known in latin as Murina beelzebub.
ATLANTA-a new type of influenza virus A in Albania on a devil's fruit-eating bat. This discovery marks a new knowledge that the bats, as well as birds, could also be the source of the carriers of the flu virus. ' It became the first invention identified influenza virus in bats, but in the form now, the virus is not harmful to humans, ' said Suxian Tong, an expert in viral virus that arbroath. Influenza A Virus detected in the 3 samples from 316 bat serrated yellow that inhabit two different areas in the region of Guatemala. Devil bats will bite humans, not because they only eat the fruit. Tong, who is also head of the pathogen discovery program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta to preach that the study is very important because it gives an indication of the animals that could be the source of the spread of a virus. Previous flu viruses that caused the pandemic H1N1, found, for example comes from an animal. The Virus is then changed and underwent a mutation that could quickly infect humans. '' Fortunately, this newly discovered viruses will still need to make significant changes to invade and spread into the human body easily, ' said Ruben Victor, head of Molecular Virology and Vaccine Branch in CDC'S Influenza Division at, as reported by AFP, Wednesday (28/2/2012). Despite that, this new virus infects predictable can also other animals such as horses, pigs and dogs. The discovery of this new virus will be published in the journal the Proceeding of the National Academy of Science.

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