SII manufactured BCG vaccine gets export nod to treat bladder cancerThe Serum Institute of India has been granted permission to export its BCG vaccine to Canada for the treatment of bladder cancer, following...
24 Jul, 2023, 04.33 PM IST
IIL gets regulatory nod for measles-rubella vaccineThe MR vaccine was developed by Hyderabad-based IIL in exclusive partnership with Vietnam's state owned Center for Research and Production ...
27 Mar, 2023, 06.28 PM IST
Booster dose increases antibodies, improves protection against Omicron, say scientistsThe Health Ministry told the Lok Sabha last week that the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19 (NEGVAC) and the Nat...
12 Dec, 2021, 04.01 PM IST
Measles vax effective in kids against Covid: StudyThe Pune findings support a much-discussed hypothesis that children are fairly protected against SARS-CoV-2 because of 'non-specific immuni...
22 Jun, 2021, 10.17 AM IST
China approves 16 locally-made COVID-19 vaccines for clinical trialsChina has already given conditional approval to two inactivated COVID-19 vaccines made by state-owned developers -- Sinopharm and Sinovac B...
21 Feb, 2021, 03.32 PM IST
CEPI labs to help improve Covid-19 vaccine evaluationThe initiative, led by the not for profit Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness and Innovation (CEPI), is looking to bring in as many global v...
08 Oct, 2020, 10.47 AM IST
Panacea Biotec completes Phase I/II study of DengiAlI vaccineAccording to the World Health Organization, dengue represents one of the 10 biggest global health threats and it is critical to have access...
24 Sep, 2020, 04.16 PM IST
Common childhood vaccine might prevent severe complications of Covid-19, says studyThe scientists suggested that adults working in high-risk settings who are not immuno-compromised, pregnant, or allergic to vaccinations, g...
27 Jun, 2020, 06.02 PM IST
MMR vaccine might offer protection against worst COVID-19 complications, scientists sayResearchers said live attenuated vaccines, which are made using weakened strains of a disease-causing pathogen, provide nonspecific protect...
19 Jun, 2020, 06.32 PM IST
Hyderabad company, Australian varsity partner for vaccineScientists from India and Australia will develop a ‘live attenuated SARS – CoV-2 vaccine’ using the latest codon deoptimisation technology,...
08 Apr, 2020, 07.50 AM IST
Coronavirus vaccine within a year but it won't be 100% effectiveThe vaccine for coronavirus should not be seen as a cure, says Adar Poonawalla of SII.
23 Mar, 2020, 12.13 PM IST
- Novel chikungunya vaccine promises safety, effectiveness
New York, Dec 20 (IANS) Researchers have developed the first vaccine for chikungunya fever made from an insect-specific virus that does not...
20 Dec, 2016, 04.05 PM IST
Safer polio vaccine strains for post-eradication eraScientists have developed a new generation of polio vaccine strains that are both effective and unable to cause the disease in case of an a...
01 Jan, 2016, 04.21 PM IST
World's first dengue vaccine gets nod after 20 years of researchThe injection can thwart all four types of the virus, which has appeared in Portugal, France, Florida and Japan recently, according to WHO.
10 Dec, 2015, 02.06 PM IST
Ego humbledEgo and humility are intertwined in consciousness in varying degrees for survival on a material plane.
28 Jul, 2012, 02.29 AM IST
'Evaluate' PersonsWhen a person is subject to cruel or ungrateful treatment by another, who had benefitted by his largesse, he would do well to analyse the p...
12 Mar, 2012, 01.50 AM IST
- Vaccines, biologicals may be left out of price control
Even as the government says that all 354 drugs on the national essential medicines list will come under price control, it is considering le...
06 Jun, 2006, 12.00 AM IST