Newborn screening, early treatment can cut sickle cell anaemia mortality: ICMR studyAn ICMR study reveals that early diagnosis and treatment of sickle cell disease through newborn screening significantly reduces mortality f...
22 Jun, 2025, 11.46 AM IST
Antibiotics becoming ineffective against diseases like typhoid, pneumonia, and urinary infections: ICMR rings alarmA recent ICMR report highlights a troubling rise in antibiotic resistance in India. Diseases like UTIs, blood infections, pneumonia, and ty...
23 Sep, 2024, 04.28 PM IST
BHU study on Covaxin had serious methodological flaws as per ICMR: Prataprao JadhavThe Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) reviewed a study on the long-term safety of Covaxin in adults and adolescents, conducted by B...
06 Aug, 2024, 04.09 PM IST
ICMR findings soon on Covid-heart attack linkThe Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is on the verge of unveiling the outcomes of a comprehensive study aimed at understanding the...
30 Oct, 2023, 11.57 PM IST
Indian Institute succeeds in isolating and culturing Omicron strain in labExperts at the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), an autonomous institute under the Department of Biotechnology...
25 Dec, 2021, 09.42 AM IST
HCQ, another drug dropped from Covid treatment protocolThe Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has removed usage of popular drugs Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) from the approved ...
24 Sep, 2021, 06.20 AM IST
Covaxin single-dose for survivor may be as effective as both for uninfectedAccording to a pilot study by ICMR (Indian Council for Medical Research) a single dose of Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin in people who have been ...
30 Aug, 2021, 09.49 AM IST
Two-third of population surveyed in 11 states have coronavirus antibodies: ICMR serosurveyReferring to the findings, the Health Ministry has advised states and union territories to conduct seroprevalence studies of their own in c...
28 Jul, 2021, 08.19 PM IST
Coronavirus prevalence was up to 55% in containment zones: Sero surveyOver 5,000 individuals were surveyed from 60 containment zones of 12 hotspot cities including Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Surat, Jaipur, Jodhp...
21 Sep, 2020, 07.24 AM IST
Make first serosurvey data public: ExpertsThe group of public health experts has now written to the director-general of ICMR to disclose the findings of the survey that was conducte...
10 Jul, 2020, 11.31 PM IST
Favirpiravir yet to find favour with ICMRHowever, the experts were not convinced and decided not to put it in the revised treatment protocol,” a person aware of the matter told ET ...
01 Jul, 2020, 10.45 PM IST
Sero survey findings not shared with ICMR’s panel: DCS Reddy“The findings of the data have not been shared with the ICMR epidemiology and surveillance working group as yet,” DCS Reddy, chairman of th...
10 Jun, 2020, 08.24 AM 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
Institute of Cost Accountants volunteer services to ICMRPrivate labs, which had termed the Rs 4,500 cap as being on the ‘moderate side’, objected to the order as there was no clarity regarding re...
14 Apr, 2020, 07.03 PM IST
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...
18 Mar, 2020, 07.32 AM IST
Will know if India is going through community transmission of Covid-19: ICMRICMR picks up random samples of people from hospitals to ascertain the stage of transmission.
17 Mar, 2020, 10.57 AM IST
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw gets lifetime achievement awardBill Gates, co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, gave away this award to Mazumdar-Shaw in New Delhi on Nov 17 at an event to mark the...
18 Nov, 2019, 11.51 PM IST