Paul Alexander, 'Polio Paul,' dies at 78 after spending 70 years in iron lungPaul Alexander, known as "Polio Paul," has passed away at the age of 78 after living 70 years in an iron lung due to polio paralysis. Despi...
Polio in US, UK and Israel reveals rare risk of oral vaccineNow, in a surprising twist in the decades-long effort to eradicate the virus, authorities in Jerusalem, New York and London have discovered...
India's one million all-women ASHA volunteers honoured by WHOAccredited Social Health Activists -- or ASHA volunteers -- are Indian government's affiliated health-care workers who are the first point ...
Europe's COVID crisis pits vaccinated against unvaccinatedGovernments desperate to shield overburdened healthcare systems are imposing rules that limit choices for the unvaccinated in the hope that...
New government panel to oversee foreign Covid vaccine supplyOfficials said the panel will look to solve issues such as the indemnity clause, which has been a point of contention between global vaccin...
Covid-19: Centre sounds alarm, calls for district action plans"After having successfully brought down the number of new Covid-19 cases from mid-September 2020 to February 2021, India is now witnessing ...
Indian vaccines among the safest in the world: Government“Our vaccines are absolutely safe,” Niti Aayog member (health) V K Paul said. “Our data shows there is negligible side effects and almost n...
Sanitation worker becomes first person to get COVID vaccine in AIIMS; Vardhan calls it historic dayMore than one crore cases and 1.5 lakh fatalities later, India took its first steps out of the pandemic with shots of the Covishield and Co...
Covid-19 Vaccination: How will the government roll it out?Covid-19 vaccination could arguably be the most challenging exercise India has embarked upon. How will the government roll it out? What mak...
Covid-19: National vaccine administration policy in the works to get jab job done“India has the world’s largest vaccination programme. We already have a robust system of electronic vaccine intelligence network (eVIN), th...
Midwifing the vaccine: The When is visible but there’s much left to do on the Who and HowThe big ‘but’ butts into scalability. The usual sticking point of lab-to-arm is hugely multiplied when dealing with a totally new vaccine a...
At IAA World Congress, focus is on brands and moreAn early adopter of social media, Amitabh Bachchan said, “Social media may not be news but it certainly is a call to attention. It works fo...
Novel patch can better deliver polio vaccines: StudyKendall said,"ease of administration, coupled with dose reduction observed in this study suggests that the Nanopatch could facilitate inexp...
PM Narendra Modi suggests use of 'divyang' for persons with disability in his 'Mann ki Baat'The Department of Disability Affairs has already had two meetings on this with experts since the PM spoke about it first.
Cipla ties up with Serum Institute to sell vaccines in South AfricaCipla said it had agreed to an exclusive deal with Serum Institute to supply vaccines to South Africa, adding a new market to their partner...
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Farming is a great example of something critical to the poor that gets very little attention in rich countries. Back in the 19th century, t...
- Lakshmi Mittal richest Asian in Britain in 2010
NRI steel baron Lakshmi Mittal is the richest Asian in Britain for the year 2010 with an estimated wealth of 17 billion pound. World's top ...