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"India has scientific capability to emerge as global leader in health technologies": NITI Aayog's Gobardhan DasIndia's largest biomedical event, 'Medical Innovations Patent Mitra: Innovators-to-Industry Connect', successfully took place in New Delhi....
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...
AI turning vital to healthcare, need to prepare doctors to use it responsibly: NMC chairpersonNational Medical Commission chairperson Abhijat Sheth emphasised the need to prepare doctors and healthcare systems for responsible AI inte...
Unlike Covid-19, hantavirus not known for rapid human transmission, spreads through rodents: ExpertsHantavirus cases linked to a cruise ship with Indian nationals have sparked concerns, but experts declare these infections are confined to ...
India faces no immediate public health threat from hantavirus: NIV chiefTwo Indian nationals aboard a cruise ship have reportedly contracted hantavirus. Indian health officials assure the public that these cases...
India should chart own path in treatment of rare diseases: ICMR chiefIndia is taking a groundbreaking step forward in the realm of rare disease care with a distinctive approach that champions local ingenuity ...
No cause of worry, infection severity mild: ICMR DG amid uptick in Covid casesAmid a rise in Covid cases across India, ICMR Director General Dr. Rajiv Behl assures that infections are currently mild, with no cause for...
ICMR distances itself from BHU's Covaxin study, asks to explain why it should not seek Iegal and administrative actionThe Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has criticised Banaras Hindu University (BHU) researchers for incorrectly associating them wi...
Rajiv Bahl appointed ICMR Director GeneralBahl is currently the Head of Research on Maternal, Newborn Child and Adolescent Health cum-Newborn Unit Head, Department of Maternal Newbo...
Over 50-cr samples tested for COVID-19 in India till now: ICMR"ICMR has been enhancing COVID-19 testing capability across the country by expanding and diversifying testing capacity by leveraging techno...
COVID-19 vaccines are disease-modifying, reduce chances of severe infection, mortality: ICMR chiefResponding to a question about people contracting the coronavirus infection even after taking both doses of COVID vaccine, ICMR Chief Balra...
21.5% of population showed evidence of past exposure to COVID in latest national serosurvey: GovtPresenting the findings of the survey, ICMR Director General Dr Balram Bhargava said 21.4 per cent of the 28,589 people, aged 18 years and ...
Masks probably may never even go, says ICMR chief Balram Bhargava"We don't know how much of the population we'll have to vaccinate to break the virus transmission. What we know is that we've been able to ...
Bharat Biotech begins first phase of human trials of indigenously developed CovaxinCovaxin has been in news since ICMR director-general Balram Bhargava shot off a letter on July 2 to 12 hospitals and research centres, aski...
Senior ICMR scientist tests positive for coronavirusThe scientist, who is from Mumbai, had come to Delhi few days ago and tested positive for the virus on Sunday morning.
ICMR deploys IBM's Watson to expedite responses from Covid testingICMR Director General Balram Bhargava said that it is critical to remain focused on testing, diagnosis and treatment of coronavirus patient...
ICMR may cap price of each coronavirus test at Rs 4,500-Rs 5,000 for private labs: OfficialThe Union health ministry had on Tuesday issued guidelines for private sector laboratories intending to initiate coronavirus testing while ...
Covid-19 outbreak: No evidence of community transmission, says ICMRICMR director-general Balram Bhargava said preliminary results of 500 random samples were all negative and insisted that there is no eviden...
India's first uterus transplant under cloud as ICMR says permission not soughtICMR spokespersons told TOI that which conducted the procedure, Pune-based Galaxy Care Laproscopy Institute (GCLI), did not seek its permis...
No new mutant strain in Delhi dengue outbreak: ICMR Director General Dr Soumya SwaminathanSwaminathan, a paediatrician and a researcher on infectious diseases, says that four sero types circulate in India and this year, Delhi is ...