Can we avoid another coronavirus pandemic?Trials have been on in Europe and Latin America since December, and the results could be out as early as next month. The good news is that,...
22 Feb, 2021, 11.10 AM IST
Oxford University to test COVID-19 vaccine response among children for first timeThe new mid-stage trial will determine whether the vaccine is effective on people between the ages of 6 and 17, according to an emailed sta...
13 Feb, 2021, 06.54 PM IST
COVID-19 vaccine race: Main candidates and where they standCo-developed by the University of Oxford and British-Swedish company AstraZeneca and known as Covishield in India, the vaccine was the firs...
10 Jan, 2021, 11.56 AM IST
COVID-19 vaccine race: Where they stand currentlyDeveloped by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research and the National Institute of Virology, the indige...
09 Jan, 2021, 06.44 PM IST
Dubai ruler joins coronavirus vaccine trialTwo vaccines are undergoing third-phase trials in the UAE, one produced by Chinese drug giant Sinopharm, and Russia's Sputnik-V, named afte...
03 Nov, 2020, 05.58 PM IST
Chinese pharmaceutical firm seeks Bangladesh co-finance for COVID-19 vaccine trialsIn a letter to the Bangladesh government on September 22, Beijing headquartered Sinovac Biotech said the phase 3 trials of the vaccine they...
04 Oct, 2020, 08.10 PM IST
Oxford, AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trials resume days after pauseThe study had been previously stopped in July for several days after a participant who got the vaccine developed neurological symptoms; it ...
12 Sep, 2020, 09.01 PM IST
Pause in AstraZeneca vaccine trial not necessarily a setback, says UK health ministerAstraZeneca Plc said it had paused global trials, including large late-stage trials, of its experimental coronavirus vaccine due to an unex...
10 Sep, 2020, 12.07 PM IST
J&J to start mid-stage coronavirus vaccine trials in 3 European countries next weekSpain, which has western Europe's highest tally of coronavirus cases, is also working with AstraZeneca via the European Union's vaccine pro...
28 Aug, 2020, 05.35 PM IST
Zydus Cadila aims to complete trial of coronavirus vaccine by March: Chairman Pankaj PatelCadila's vaccine candidate, known as ZyCov-D, is one of dozens being developed around the world to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
17 Jul, 2020, 02.06 PM IST
China plans to use Bangladesh population to conduct Phase III Covid-19 vaccine trialsET has gathered that China is taking advantage of Covid to exploit developing and least developed countries across sectors from pharma to t...
14 Jul, 2020, 08.58 AM IST
Chinese researchers launch phase-2 human test for possible vaccineAbout a dozen vaccines are in different stages of human tests globally, as the World Health Organization warns the coronavirus pandemic is ...
21 Jun, 2020, 02.00 PM IST
Sanofi to enroll thousands for its coronavirus vaccine trialsSanofi is working on two vaccine projects to prevent COVID-19 - the illness caused by the new coronavirus - and said it is exploring severa...
06 May, 2020, 09.43 AM IST
Microbiologist is first in line for Oxford University's Covid-19 vaccine trialElisa Granato is the first volunteer in an initial group of 800 to be part of the ground-breaking trial, which is hoped will be the answer ...
24 Apr, 2020, 03.43 PM IST
Oxford Covid-19 vaccine trial on 510 humans from todayA total of 510 healthy volunteers, aged 18 to 55, will take part in the trial. While some participants will receive the vaccine – called Ch...
23 Apr, 2020, 04.13 PM IST
Oxford university begins enrolling over 500 volunteers for coronavirus vaccine trialThe researchers, working in an “unprecedented” vaccine development effort to prevent COVID-19, said they have started screening healthy vol...
28 Mar, 2020, 07.34 PM IST
As pressure for coronavirus vaccine mounts, scientists debate risks of accelerated testingStudies have suggested that coronavirus vaccines carry the risk of what is known as vaccine enhancement, where instead of protecting agains...
11 Mar, 2020, 04.46 PM IST