All central science and innovation schemes to be rolled out in West BengalMajor central science and innovation schemes are now active in West Bengal. Union Minister Jitendra Singh met with West Bengal Chief Minist...
26 May, 2026, 10.30 PM IST
Psychology says women often feel the need to control everything at home and it is not OCD but generational mental loadThe psychology behind women wanting things done a certain way often points to a deeper link between stress, mental load, anxiety and social...
23 May, 2026, 02.23 PM IST
ICMR replaces old system with single window approval for medical studiesThe Indian Council of Medical Research has introduced a unified ethics approval process for multicentre medical studies, replacing the prev...
22 May, 2026, 12.22 AM IST
Under 5% of disease-focussed genomic studies conducted in low, middle-income countries: WHOGenomic studies for diseases are overwhelmingly conducted in wealthy nations. Low and middle-income countries participate minimally. Cancer...
23 Dec, 2025, 02.25 PM IST
Under 5 pc of disease-focussed genomic studies conducted in low, middle-income countries: WHOA World Health Organization analysis reveals over 80% of global genomic disease studies are in high-income countries, with under 5% in low ...
23 Dec, 2025, 02.25 PM IST
Brazil suspends clinical trials of Bharat Biotech's Covaxin“The Coordination of Clinical Research at Anvisa (Copec/GGMED) determined this Friday (23/7) the precautionary suspension of clinical studi...
25 Jul, 2021, 06.49 AM IST
IIT Kharagpur gets funding worth Rs 80 crore from Centre for second phase of SPARC programIn 2019-20, more than 300 international experts visited Indian institutions registered under SPARC for various projects and workshops. Clos...
14 Dec, 2020, 05.17 PM IST
AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trial Brazil volunteer dies, trial to continueThe Federal University of Sao Paulo, which is helping coordinate phase 3 clinical trials in Brazil, separately said the volunteer was Brazi...
21 Oct, 2020, 11.39 PM IST
No nod to Patanjali products for Covid treatment: AYUSH ministry“It is an interim report. So, calling it a cure is simply wrong. The sample size is very small. We have tried this intervention on 100 peop...
25 Jun, 2020, 05.57 PM IST
WHO sees 'great news' in steroid's trial results in COVID-19"This is the first treatment to be shown to reduce mortality in patients with COVID-19 requiring oxygen or ventilator support," WHO Directo...
17 Jun, 2020, 06.22 PM IST
AIIMS to soon conduct 1st autopsy to study virusIndia has decided that invasive technique should not be adopted for forensic autopsy in Covid-19 deaths as mortuary staff are exposed to po...
20 May, 2020, 11.44 PM IST
India to test four drugs for Covid-19 as part of the WHO solidarity trialOn Wednesday the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) announced that potential anti-viral agents, Remdesivir, Chloroquine/Hydroxychlor...
15 May, 2020, 03.35 PM IST
India to test four drugs as part of WHO trialPotential anti-viral agents remdesivir, chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir-ritonavir and lopinavir-ritonavir with interferon will be...
14 May, 2020, 06.56 AM IST
Indian doctor Soumya Swaminathan new WHO deputy director-generalThe new WHO leadership team was announced on Tuesday by director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who was elected to the post in May.
04 Oct, 2017, 09.32 AM IST
AYUSH: Government spends Rs 20 crore on 5 research centres annuallyThe centre spends Rs 8,59,89,000 on Central Council for Research in Homeopathy (CCRH), Minister of State for AYUSH, Sripad Yesso Naik, said...
19 Jul, 2016, 10.38 PM IST
In effort to push Ayush, govt begins clinical testing of ayurvedic, homeopathy medicinesThese clinical trials are being conducted in some government as well as private hospitals, a senior official in the ministry of ayurveda, u...
18 Oct, 2015, 10.51 AM IST
- Biotech regulator needs engineering
It is good news that the government is expediting the process of setting up the national biotechnology regulatory authority, which is envis...
04 Jul, 2008, 03.30 AM IST