CLINICAL TRIAL

Phase 3 clinical trial: Bharat Biotech says COVID-19 vaccine shows 81% interim efficacy

Bharat Biotech's homegrown COVID-19 vaccine has shown an interim vaccine efficacy of 81% in late-stage clinical trials, the Indian company ...

In boost for COVID-19 battle, Pfizer vaccine found 94% effective in real world

The research in Israel - two months into one of the world's fastest rollouts, providing a rich source of data - showed two doses of the Pfi...

Kochi firm PNB Vesper Life Sciences completes phase 2 clinical trial of coronavirus drug

The company on Monday said the clinical trial was initiated in November at BJ Government Medical College and Sassoon General Hospital in Pu...

China approves 16 locally-made COVID-19 vaccines for clinical trials

China has already given conditional approval to two inactivated COVID-19 vaccines made by state-owned developers -- Sinopharm and Sinovac B...

Clinical trials indicate India's vaccines will be effective against Covid-19 variants: ICMR

Dr Bhargava pointed out that India was the fifth country in the world to isolate the Covid-19 virus as part of the efforts to develop a vac...

Clinical trials indicate India's vaccines will be effective against COVID-19 variants, says ICMR

Addressing an international webinar "Kerala Health: Making the SDG A Reality," organised by the Department of Health and Family Welfare, Go...

China says 16 Chinese COVID-19 vaccines undergoing clinical trials

China is conducting clinical trials of 16 COVID-19 vaccines, seven of which have entered phase-III trials and one has conditionally hit the...

Bharat Biotech’s consent forms 'must' for Covaxin shot; What does the form say?

As India has begun the COVID vaccine drive, the process of getting vaccinated by Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin is different, one has to sign a c...

Healthcare NGO raises concerns over Covaxin

A day before India begins the world’s largest Covid-19 vaccination drive, a group of healthcare-focused NGOs has sought clarifications from...

Bharat Biotech hits outs at critics, says carried out '200 pc honest' trials of corona vaccine

Now that vaccine is being politicized, I want to state very clearly that none of my family members is associated with any political party, ...

Zydus Cadila gets DCGI nod to initiate Phase-3 clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccine

The phase II study of ZyCoV-D had been conducted in over 1,000 healthy adult volunteers as part of the adaptive Phase I/II dose-escalation,...

AIIMS New Delhi advertises for Phase-III clinical trial of Covaxin

"AIIMS, New Delhi is a site for COVAXIN Phase III clinical trial. This is a whole-virion inactivated vaccine co-sponsored by Indian Council...

Serum Institute develops first indigenous vaccine against pneumonia; to be launched next week

India's drug regulator in July had granted market approval for the Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Conjugate vaccine, after reviewing the phase...

3 COVID-19 vaccine candidates under active consideration of drug regulator: Health Ministry

Over the last four days, the Indian arm of US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, Pune-based Serum Institute of India and Hyderabad-based pharmace...

Bharat Biotech's intranasal COVID-19 vaccine to enter phase 1 trials next month

Replying to a query on the probable pricing of Covaxin, he said Indian vaccines will be much cheaper when compared to other countries.

Trial volunteers given Rs 12 cr in compensation in the last 3 years: DCGI

The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) on Friday said India had paid Rs 12 crore of compensation to clinical trial participants who ha...

Phase-3 trial of Bharat Biotech's Covaxin commences in AIIMS

Dr Srivastava was the first one to receive the shot, which would be given to around 15,000 volunteers at the AIIMS over the next few days, ...