Fears of US public health crises grow amid falling vaccination ratesUS experts are warning of a potential public health crisis due to declining vaccination rates and outbreaks of previously controlled childh...
25 Feb, 2025, 07.26 AM IST
Musk targets US Covid response lead Fauci in viral tweet"My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci," the billionaire Twitter CEO said, alluding to the practice of indicating gender pronouns after one's nam...
12 Dec, 2022, 09.01 AM IST
Will the updated Covid boosters prevent another wave this winter? Experts raise doubtsDesigning a vaccine for an evolving virus is a formidable challenge.
19 Nov, 2022, 05.58 PM IST
Experts urge caution after detection of BQ.1 strainThey said Covid-19 cases could rise in the coming days due to festivals including Diwali next week. BQ.1 is an offshoot of the Omicron vari...
19 Oct, 2022, 01.11 AM IST
FDA OKs another Pfizer, Moderna COVID booster for 50 and upUntil now, the FDA had cleared fourth doses only for people 12 and older who have severely weakened immune systems. The agency said this es...
29 Mar, 2022, 08.52 PM IST
People won't move around with masks on forever: American immunologist Anthony S FauciHe also said there is a great deal of 'disinformation' around and that is entirely destructive to a comprehensive public health endeavour. ...
18 Jan, 2022, 06.53 AM IST
What to know about breakthrough infections and the Delta variantThe vaccines were intended to prevent hospitalization and death, the worst outcomes of infection. But the infection begins when people inha...
11 Aug, 2021, 12.31 PM IST
Getting people vaccinated only long-term solution to Covid crisis in India: Fauci“The endgame of this all...is going to be to get people vaccinated...India is the largest vaccine-producing country in the world. They've g...
10 May, 2021, 09.43 AM IST
Indian-origin immunologist Sankar Ghosh elected to National Academy of SciencesSankar Ghosh is the Silverstein and Hutt Family Professor of Microbiology and chair of the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at the V...
06 May, 2021, 08.10 AM IST
Moderna vaccine antibodies last at least 6 months; lung transplant can save some COVID-19 survivorsEarlier this month, Pfizer Inc and partner BioNTech SE said their vaccine using similar messenger RNA (mRNA) technology remained highly eff...
09 Apr, 2021, 10.46 PM IST
No data on efficacy of India's COVID vaccines against South African, Brazilian variants: ScientistsOn Tuesday, the Health Ministry said four people were detected with the South Africa variant of SARS-CoV-2 and one tested positive for the ...
17 Feb, 2021, 06.15 PM IST
Kamala Harris, Dr. Fauci feature on ‘Famous Names Most Mispronounced’ listAre our mispronunciations not as important as those of others?
11 Dec, 2020, 07.55 AM IST
Biden warns 'more people may die' of virus if transition delayedBiden was declared winner of the November 3 election but Trump has not conceded, and his administration has so far failed to formally ackno...
17 Nov, 2020, 09.38 AM IST
Donald Trump hopeful to have COVID-19 vaccine by end of this yearTrump formally announced "Operation Warp Speed" to develop the COVID-19 vaccine as his administration mounted an unprecedented effort that ...
16 May, 2020, 01.52 PM IST
A second Covid-19 test can be a game-changer: Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan to ETThose who have had the infection, and seem to be immune to it, can be allowed to rejoin the workforce following the second Covid-19 test., ...
27 Mar, 2020, 08.31 AM IST
James Allison, Tasuku Honjo win Nobel Prize in Medicine for cancer researchThe duo showed how different strategies for inhibiting brakes on the immune system that can be used in cancer treatment.
01 Oct, 2018, 10.56 PM IST
Hygiene Hypothesis: Banishing germs from your life can make you seriously illEvidence accumulates in favour of the hygiene hypothesis, which says that banishing germs from your life can make you seriously ill.
21 May, 2012, 10.43 AM IST