Medical device manufacturers allowed to give free samplesMedical device companies in New Delhi can now give doctors free samples. There are rules for this. The sample's price must match what stock...
03 Sep, 2025, 01.02 AM IST
GBS cases surge in Pune: Maharashtra reports first suspected death, over 100 infections confirmedGBS cases in Pune: Maharashtra's health department has reported over 100 cases of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) in Pune, with one suspected...
27 Jan, 2025, 08.52 AM IST
9 active equity mutual funds that have performed better in last 4 yearsVolatility in domestic equity markets has recently intensified due to increased FPI selling, a stronger US dollar, and rising US bond yield...
20 Jan, 2025, 06.30 AM IST
USFDA pulls up Natco Pharma for manufacturing lapses at Telangana plantNatco Pharma's Telangana plant violated cleanliness and sterilisation standards at Kothur Village facility per USFDA. The warning letter me...
21 Apr, 2024, 11.09 AM IST
NASA picks geology team for first crewed lunar landing missionAmid the frenzied anticipation in India around its third lunar mission - Chandrayaan-3, American space agency NASA has chosen a geology tea...
23 Aug, 2023, 10.43 AM IST
ICMR approves CSIR's COVID-19 testing method that can help ramp up number of RT-PCR testsThe Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has approved a simple and fast method for COVID-19 testing which can not only increase the n...
28 Nov, 2020, 07.59 PM IST
New global lab network will compare vaccines head-to-headIn a network spanning Europe, Asia and North America, the labs will centralise analysis of samples from trials of Covid-19 candidates “as t...
03 Oct, 2020, 07.47 AM IST
Private labs may soon be allowed to test for coronavirus infectionRoche has also received a licence from the Indian drug regulator for a specific SARS-Covid-19 diagnostic that can test thousands of samples...
18 Mar, 2020, 08.49 AM IST
View: Experimental economics not perfect but has potentialRCT, a new field, can make useful predictions and can help discover not "what works", but "why things work".
20 Oct, 2019, 09.28 PM IST
Government study to evaluate success of pension programme rolloutThe reference period for the evaluation study will be from 2015-16 till 2017-18 and 600 beneficiaries will be contacted from each of the 10...
18 Oct, 2018, 07.13 AM IST
Uttar Pradesh recalls contaminated polio vaccineIn April 2016, after due recommendations from Global Polio Eradication Initiative, India decided to switch from the trivalent to bivalent v...
05 Oct, 2018, 09.13 AM IST
- Researchers generate human antibodies in the lab
Bengaluru, July 25 (IANS) A new laboratory technique that will accelerate development of vaccines to protect people from a wide range of di...
25 Jul, 2017, 11.27 AM IST
Meet ChalkStreet - the startup that chalks your coursesChalkStreet has more than 140,000 registered learners from at least 50 countries, with a vast majority being from India and the next highes...
31 Mar, 2017, 01.18 AM IST
Modi government makes 8 lakh calls in 10 days to check success of four big schemesCabinet Secretary PK Sinha then oversaw the ‘calls to citizens’ exercise, initiated in double-time within 3 weeks of the PM’s suggestion.
05 Apr, 2016, 07.10 AM IST
Single human antibody shows promise against EbolaA single monoclonal antibody isolated from a human survivor of Ebola virus disease (EVD) completely protects monkeys from the lethal virus.
26 Feb, 2016, 12.33 PM IST
- After milk, salt under government’s FSSAI quality scanner
After milk, salt - another most common food item - is under the Food Safety Standards Authority of India's (FSSAI) scanner.
15 Jan, 2012, 04.10 PM IST
- Free software poised to look proprietary ware in the eye
Free and open source software (FOSS) may just be ready to shed its tag of being a poor cousin of proprietary software, as a range of users ...
26 Oct, 2009, 02.37 PM IST