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DCGI approves indigenous mRNA Covid jab for emergency use in 18 yrs & aboveAbout 70 lakh doses of the vaccine have already been cleared by the government’s nodal Central Drug Laboratory (CDL) at Kasauli and it is e...
WHO considers declaring monkeypox a global health emergencyDeclaring monkeypox to be a global emergency would mean the U.N. health agency considers the outbreak to be an "extraordinary event" and th...
Gennova closes in on nod for mRNA vax developed in IndiaGennova had in April submitted interim data on India's first indigenously developed mRNA Covid-19 vaccine to the Central Drug Standard Cont...
WHO is exploring when and how to declare the end of Covid emergencyThe WHO said it isn’t currently considering such a declaration. While cases have fallen in many places, fatalities have spiked in Hong Kong...
SC directs Centre to submit expert committee report on aircraft fumigationA bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud passed the order after Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati informed that as a result of ...
Single dose of Pfizer and Astrazeneca Covid vaccines highly effective: StudiesIsraeli studies have found the Pfizer vaccine to be 95 percent effective one week after a second jab, while the Lancet report focused on mo...
Dharavi holds hope for other big cities in Covid-19 control: Dr H Sudarshan Ballal, chairman, Manipal HospitalsIt is time we started to look at reverse-isolation. Protect normal but vulnerable people from infection. Largest number of mortality is in ...
Hydroxychloroquine given under supervision, side effects can be addressed, says Indian-American doctorConsidered one of the most influential Indian-American community leaders in the US, Dr Bharat Barai alleged that certain people and media a...
Died of Covid, or died with Covid? As countries raise toll, questions arise about the reported deathsEven in non-Covid times, only about 22% of deaths are medically certified in India, while roughly 10 lakh deaths a year don’t even get regi...
Indira Gandhi, Amrit Kaur named by TIME among '100 Women of the Year'Kaur's profile said that the young princess returned to India in 1918 after studying at Oxford and soon became fascinated by Mahatma Gandhi...
Indian doctor Soumya Swaminathan new WHO deputy director-generalThe new WHO leadership team was announced on Tuesday by director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who was elected to the post in May.
Indian Medical Association may collate list of combination drugs that are 'irrational' & 'unsafe'The body says it may also collate its own list of combination drugs that are 'irrational' and 'unsafe' so that its members can avoid prescr...
Government may move Supreme Court to club all FDC drugs ban casesNadda admitted that situation was a result of lack of coordination between various state licencing authorities and Drugs Controller General...
882 tribal children die in state-run residential schools across the countryThese are numbers of innocent lives lost seemingly on account of sheer official apathy, manifest in the lack of basic facilities.
Nobel Economics Prize to wrap up 2015 awards seasonThe economics prize -- the only one of the six awards not created in Swedish philanthropist and scientist Alfred Nobel's 1895 will.
Controversial vaccine studies: Why is Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation under fire from critics in India?Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has funded two entities that have played a key role in the immunization programme and are both under fire f...
- Govt acts on UN reports on climate change, sets up panel
The Union Government set up a high-level panel to tackle the impact of global warming.