HPV vaccine must be added to Universal Immunisation Programme to cut cervical cancer risk: Parl panelA Parliamentary panel urges swift HPV vaccine inclusion in India's Universal Immunisation Programme to combat cervical cancer, prevalent am...
21 Aug, 2025, 03.03 PM IST
HPV vaccines may protect men as well as women from cancer claims new studyVaccinated women had a lower risk of developing cervical cancer within at least five years of getting the shots. For men, there were benefi...
24 May, 2024, 08.43 AM IST
Poonam Pandey's death at 32 shines spotlight on cervical cancer: Vaccination and preventive measuresBollywood actress and social media sensation Poonam Pandey allegedly succumbed to cervical cancer at the age of 32. The news prompted a clo...
03 Feb, 2024, 01.06 PM IST
Immunotherapy can stall the growth of malignant cells in cervical cancer patients: StudyIn India, cervical cancer is the second most common in women, making up close to 18 per cent of the new cancer cases, the International Age...
02 Feb, 2024, 11.43 PM IST
How to prevent cervical health problems and five warning signs you should not ignoreOne aspect often overlooked by women is cervical health. Ensuring optimal cervical health is crucial for women, and there are numerous proa...
02 Feb, 2024, 12.12 PM IST
MSD pharma likely to participate when govt floats tender for vaccine against cervical cancerThe Serum Institute's made-in-India vaccine against cervical cancer, CERVAVAC, was launched last month. Prakash Kumar Singh, Director of Go...
15 Feb, 2023, 06.24 PM IST
India's first at-home cervical cancer screening test coming soonCervical cancer is the second most frequent disease among women in India, after breast cancer, despite the fact that it is mostly avoidable...
20 Jan, 2023, 05.18 PM IST
'Indian' cervical cancer vaccine to hit market soonSingh said Covid-19 had raised awareness about preventive healthcare and the development of vaccines like the one against cervical cancer w...
02 Sep, 2022, 09.38 AM IST
Cervical Cancer Vaccine: Here's everything you should know about India's self-developed HPV vaccineIndia pharma regulator, DCGI had last month granted market authorisation to SII to manufacture the indigenously-developed vaccine against c...
01 Sep, 2022, 04.42 PM IST
Cervical cancer vaccine to be launched in few months at affordable price: SII CEO Adar PoonawallaPoonawalla told reporters on the sidelines of the event, "The cervical cancer vaccine will be affordable and would be available in the rang...
01 Sep, 2022, 03.10 PM IST
Indian vaccine makers gaining wider market share in industryAccording to a TOI report, indigenously-manufactured vaccines have started to capture share from MNCs in certain diseases even as the Rs 3,...
25 Aug, 2022, 11.41 AM IST
HPV vaccine helps fight cervical cancer in older women, says studyA study suggests that giving injections to women who are going for treatment of precancerous lesions may reduce the risk of it happening ag...
04 Aug, 2022, 08.12 PM IST
India gets its first cervical cancer vaccine; women in their 30s remain vulnerable, must get regular check-ups doneAdar Poonawalla said that the 'affordable' qHPV will be launched later this year.
13 Jul, 2022, 01.00 PM IST
Not just for children! Here are the vaccines that every adult needs to getAdults too need preventive immunisation against many deadly diseases.
06 Mar, 2018, 11.04 AM IST
- HPV vaccine could reduce Pap tests in a lifetime
London, Nov 12 (IANS) Women vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV) can be effectively protected from cervical cancer with merely...
12 Nov, 2017, 12.02 PM IST
About 122,000 women are afflicted with cervical cancer each year. Have you got yourself tested yet?It affects the lowermost segment of the uterus and is the second most common cancer affecting women in the reproductive age-group of 15-44 ...
25 Apr, 2017, 06.35 PM IST
Eight ways to protect your children from cancerChildhood cancer can be prevented to a great extent if a healthy lifestyle is followed. Here's what you need to do.
30 Dec, 2015, 09.40 AM IST