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 ...
ICMR removes Ivermectin and Hydroxycholoquine (HCQ) from Covid-19 treatment guidelinesExperts at India's health research body did not find enough evidence for Ivermectin and HCQ of a potential therapeutic effect against Covid...
ICMR should look into complaints against private labs: High CourtThe high court was hearing a plea seeking contempt action against the authorities for not adhering to the Delhi High Court's earlier direct...
Plea against ICMR advisory barring repeat of RTPCR on COVID positive patients; HC seeks Centre standThe petitioner has challenged ICMR's May 4 advisory as due to it, neither he nor his family members could get tested again after spending m...
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...
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 ...
Immune pressure due to non-judicious use of therapies can lead to virus mutation: ICMR chief"That is a point of concern. We are carrying out tests in India regularly for those variants," Bhargava said.
Dummy mobile no, hospital address can be used for testing mentally ill homeless people: ICMR to HCICMR came out with the solution to address the issue of mentally ill homeless persons not being tested for COVID-19 for the lack of a gover...
PM Modi to launch 'high-throughput' COVID-19 testing facilities in 3 cities todayUnion Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, along with Chief Ministers of Maharashtra, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh are expected to participat...
ICMR's chief epidemiologist retires, sources say will continue to advise govt in Covid-19 policy decisionsA public health expert in communicable disease, Raman Gangakhedkar was instrumental in the prevention and control measures of the HIV epide...
Delay in ICMR nod to private lab testing hit Maharashtra Covid-19 fightThe official said for Maharashtra, with over 10,000 cases and a high fatality rate, things could have been different if the ICMR had acted ...
Centre decides to withdraw faulty Covid 19 antibody test kits, cancels import orders from ChinaCentre cancels orders after it was found the kits from China were showing inaccurate results.
New testing strategy? Rapid antibody tests in hotspotsThe effort is to contain hotspots that can become centres of transmission of the disease.
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...
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.
ICMR intensifies random testing to check for covid-19As the no. of positive coronavirus cases cross 100, ICMR intensifies the task to identify community transmission.
- AIIMS professor Balram Bhargava to be new ICMR chief
Bhargava, currently a senior consultant cardiologist at the All India Institute of Medical Science, will carry out this role until 2021, ac...