Pfizer is prioritizing India for future growth. The company plans to launch new medicines here soon after their global release. Pfizer aims...

A hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship has sparked public concern. Health officials are working to communicate clearly, drawing lessons fro...

The Indian pharma sector made its initial global forays almost a quarter century ago. Companies sought out markets abroad, learnt to deal w...

Some possible factors in Japan's success include a belated but remarkably rapid vaccination campaign, an emptying out of many nightlife are...

On Aug. 26, Japan said it had halted the use of 1.63 million Moderna doses shipped to 863 vaccination centres nationwide as a precaution.

Japan's Emergency Grant Aid aims to deliver vaccines to each and every person in the all corners of developing countries, which will comple...

Thousands of private companies and some universities have joined the vaccination drive, complementing the government's effort to prioritize...

Taiwan is battling a spike in domestic infections and has vaccinated only about 1% of its population, while Japan has secured more than 400...

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is determined to hold the Olympics in Tokyo after a one-year delay and has made an ambitious pledge to finish...

The online system to book a Covid-19 vaccine crashed in many places, including parts of Tokyo and the western city of Minoh, because of a g...

Japan on Thursday had dismissed a media report that it was considering vaccinating all its Olympians by the end of June after the idea spar...

Japan's government denied any such plan was being considered, but said it would be "closely watching discussions" about protecting athletes...

In the summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Joe Biden, Australian PM Scott Morrison and Japanese PM Yoshihide Suga, vowed to ...

Japan will not take part in China's offer - accepted by the International Olympic Committee - to provide vaccines for "participants" in the...

Some in Japan, where relatively rare side effects from vaccines tend to be played up, are in no hurry to get the shot.

Takeda, one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies, is not developing its own vaccine but has contracts with several firms to dist...

Several global trials of the vaccine, AZD1222, were put on hold last month after an unexplained illness in a study participant. While most ...