ICMR testing BCG vaccine for tuberculosis
India is looking at several potential vaccine candidates for deployment in the tuberculosis elimination programme with the Indian Council for…
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Vaccine misinformation: A lasting side effect from Covid | Health
A fringe anti-vaccine movement took advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to bring conspiracy theories to a much wider audience, propelling…
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Covid vaccine should not be a hurried affair
As the Covid-19 pandemic rages on and the number of cases remains short of the peak in India and elsewhere…
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Panacea Biotec gets $20 million loan from US government for hexavalent vaccine capacity expansion, ET HealthWorld
New Delhi: Panacea Biotec on Thursday said the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), has agreed to provide a long-term…
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Bavarian Nordic sees potential to ramp up mpox vaccine capacity, ET HealthWorld
Copenhagen: Bavarian Nordic said on Thursday it could supply 13 million doses of its mpox vaccine by the end of…
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How Much Longer Do We Have to Wait for a Norovirus Vaccine?
Dozens of norovirus outbreaks have been reported across the country in recent weeks. And as people grapple with the vomiting,…
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Study shows flu vaccine effective against severe illness in kids
Influenza vaccine is effective for preventing severe influenza illness, including hospitalisation among children, according to a study. The study led…
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A shot in the arm: Supreme Court calls for review of COVID vaccine mandates
The lack of transparency in assessing scientific evidence for the approval and administration of vaccines has been the subject of…
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“We are working towards a TB vaccine in India”
Dr Raghuram Rao. | Photo Credit: By Special Arrangement While the onset of COVID-19 in March 2020 did impact tuberculosis…
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WEB EXCLUSIVE | How COVID-19 has hit India’s fight against TB
It is slowly becoming apparent that the COVID-19 pandemic, which first hit India in early 2020, has had devastating and…
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The mysterious spike in whooping cough cases
In the winter of 2023, health experts across the European continent started noticing something weird. Cases of whooping cough, also…
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India’s Immunisation Crisis – Frontline
WATCH | India’s immunisation crisis According to joint data from the World Health Organization and UNICEF, 1.6 million children in…
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COVID-19 Vaccine Safety: Balancing Rare Side Effects with Public Health Benefits
In the US, more than 13,000 recipients of COVID-19 vaccines have filed injury claims with the federal government. In India,…
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Venki Ramakrishnan’s “Why We Die” Offers a Clear-eyed Look at Ageing, and the Limits of Longevity
“…in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” —Benjamin Franklin, among others The dread…
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