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Eco Survey: Pharma focus turns to value, innovation over volumesIndia's pharma sector is moving towards high-value products like complex generics and biosimilars. The medical devices industry is also gro...- Bharat Biotech starts clinical trials of TB jabThe only vaccine in use today--BCG (Bacillus Calmette and Guerin)--is an attenuated variant of the bovine TB pathogen. This is more than a ...
- Bharat Biotech begins clinical trials of TB vaccine on adults in IndiaBharat Biotech International Ltd has initiated clinical trials for the Tuberculosis vaccine Mtbvac on adults in India. Developed by the Spa...
- SII manufactured BCG vaccine gets export nod to treat bladder cancerThe Serum Institute of India has been granted permission to export its BCG vaccine to Canada for the treatment of bladder cancer, following...
- World TB Day: Once regarded as a death sentence, tuberculosis is mostly curable today; six red flags to watch out forMen, the elderly are more vulnerable to TB.
- Clinical trials of new BCG vaccine for TB to start soon, says former CSIR chiefAccording to the India TB Report 2022, the number of 'incident TB patients' (new and relapse cases) notified during 2021 stood at 19.3 lakh...
- NIRT plans study on whether booster BCG can help prevent tuberculosisThe efficacy of BCG vaccination in newborns is well known and has a documented protective effect against meningitis and disseminated TB in ...
- Tuberculosis, the forgotten pandemic relying on a 100-year-old vaccineBoth TB and COVID are infectious diseases that generally affect the lungs. Both are passed between people mainly by aerosols, when infected...
- 4 more Indian pharma firms expected to start vaccine production by Oct-Nov: Health MinisterDuring the Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha, Mandaviya said India has administered 47 crore doses of vaccine so far and the Centre is makin...
- Measles vax effective in kids against Covid: StudyThe Pune findings support a much-discussed hypothesis that children are fairly protected against SARS-CoV-2 because of 'non-specific immuni...
- PHDCCI seeks govt support for domestic vaccine industryIn a letter to the Prime Minister's Office, PHDCCI President Sanjay Aggarwal noted that the PLI documents do not give information regarding...
- Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine helps elderly in COVID-19 fightTrials showed that BCG vaccine, which is used for protection against tuberculosis for more than 40 years now, triggered antibody and T-cell...
- UK study tests if BCG tuberculosis vaccine protects against coronavirusBacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine, used to protect against tuberculosis, induces a broad innate immune-system response and has been sh...
- TN to launch trial to study efficacy of BCG vaccine to reduce COVID-19 mortality for eldersThis is significant as the study will see whether the vaccine’s potential to combat Covid-19 and prevent hospitalisation among the aged as ...
- Texas A&M university starts human testing of tuberculosis vaccine to fight COVID-19Texas A&M is the first US institution in the clinical trial to have federal clearance for testing on humans. Researchers hope to demonstrat...
- Maharashtra plans clinical trials of TB vaccine BCG to treat Covid-19The 121-year-old institute’s trial is intended for patients who are moderately ill with Covid-19 and is likely to be carried out in small b...
- GSK's tuberculosis vaccine shows promising resultsThe new vaccine, known as M72/AS01E, was tested at 11 sites in Kenya, South Africa and Zambia in adults whose blood tests showed they had l...
- New vaccine may fight both tuberculosis and leprosyScientists have found that a variant of an existing vaccine offers stronger protection against both tuberculosis and leprosy.
- Vaccine policy set to bring in new watchdogThe government may soon bring in a national policy on vaccines that will create a separate vaccine regulatory authority and also reserve th...
- Vaccination may get Rs 500-cr shot in the armThe bump in the immunisation programme and the fall in vaccine exports have prompted the government to consider a revival of state-run vacc...
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