In India, cervical cancer is the second most common in women, making up close to 18 per cent of the new cancer cases, the International Age...

Public health experts suggest that a fourth dose of the Covid vaccine is unnecessary for now. With only 220 million people taking the third...

Vaccine requirements for federal workers and federal contractors, as well as foreign air travelers to the U.S., will end May 11. The govern...

Seroprevalence estimates were higher in children at older ages, in those living in underprivileged countries or regions, and in those of mi...

Designing a vaccine for an evolving virus is a formidable challenge.

Covid vaccines may be slightly less effective in people who are underweight.

The currently available Covid-19 vaccines are injected into people’s arm muscles and are highly capable at combating the virus once people ...

Poonawalla, ET's Business Leader Of the Year for 2021, was optimistic that final approvals for administering Covovax to children would come...

Timely measures, including test, track and treat approach with focused genome sequencing, containment, community surveillance, protocols fo...

Despite the lowered effectiveness of vaccines against omicron, it is clear that vaccines do work and are among the greatest public health a...

One reason to get more serious about flu is its cost, both economically and in human terms. Annual costs of treating influenza (routinely i...

Public Health England (PHE) said of the total Delta variant of concern (VOC) - first identified in India - 42 belong to the Delta AY.1 sub ...

The drop-off in severe cases among people 65 and older is so dramatic that the hospitalization rate among this highly vaccinated group is n...

India expanded its immunisation on March 1 to include senior citizens above 60 years and persons with comorbidities between 45 and 59 years.

Health ministry data on vaccine supplies between January 16 and February 9 shows that so far only 31.45% of Covishield and 11.75% of Covaxi...

District-wise immunisation data, reviewed by ET, reveals that rural districts have had better uptake of Covid-19 vaccines. Some officials a...

A targeted recruitment programme broadcast in Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali and Urdu is among the measures being deployed to reach out to diff...