Biotech boom: More Indian students head abroad for biotechnology degreesIndian students are increasingly pursuing biotechnology studies abroad, driven by growing opportunities in gene therapies, vaccines, and we...
06 Jul, 2025, 06.39 AM IST
Covid infections down in Singapore but experts call for precautionThe seven-day moving average of the infection was 7,870 on December 12 and decreased slightly to 7,730 on December 17, The Straits Times ne...
20 Dec, 2023, 11.28 AM IST
China okays its first mRNA vaccine, from drugmaker CSPCChina, whose home-grown vaccines are seen as less effective than the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA shots, has been racing to develop vac...
22 Mar, 2023, 08.26 PM IST
India may have to battle a 'tsunami' of chronic diseases like cancer due to globalisation, predicts US oncologistIndia will have to utilise the tech boom to safeguard her citizens from health scares, suggests experts.
19 Jan, 2023, 09.06 AM IST
As officials ease restrictions, China faces new pandemic risksThe vaccination gaps in China's older population are all the more glaring because the country has achieved relatively strong coverage overa...
02 Dec, 2022, 04.38 PM IST
China weighs exit from 'zero COVID' and the risks involvedChange does not appear imminent, with more than 15,000 new cases this month in multiple outbreaks across the country, as well as an even la...
18 Mar, 2022, 10.54 AM IST
Some experts are worried over move to use the same vaccine as booster doseThe third dose of the Covid vaccine to be given to healthcare workers, frontline workers and those aged 60 years and above with comorbiditi...
07 Jan, 2022, 10.29 AM IST
What happens when the COVID-19 vaccines enter the body – a road map for kids and grown-upsThe most important thing to understand about vaccines is that they teach your body how to gear up to fight an infection, without your body ...
31 Aug, 2021, 09.46 AM IST
The Covid booster shot is not for everyone. It's only meant for severely immunocompromised peopleBooster shots are often identical to the original vaccine.
17 Aug, 2021, 03.37 PM IST
Citing the Delta variant, Pfizer will pursue booster shots and a new vaccineA booster given six months after the second dose of the vaccine increases the potency of antibodies against the original virus and the beta...
09 Jul, 2021, 09.59 AM IST
Heart inflammation probed as possible rare Covid vaccine side effect in teens, young adultsThe boys, aged 14 to 19, received Pfizer shots in April or May and developed chest pain within a few days.
04 Jun, 2021, 01.08 PM IST
Pfizer, Moderna vaccines may greatly reduce risk of asymptomatic COVID-19 infection, study saysThe Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines for COVID-19 are authorised for emergency use in many countries. An mRNA vacc...
12 Mar, 2021, 03.54 PM IST
Why it's hard to make coronavirus vaccines and boost suppliesMakers of COVID-19 vaccines need everything to go right as they scale up production to hundreds of millions of doses _ and any little hiccu...
28 Jan, 2021, 08.41 PM IST
Explained: Why we can't just make more of the coronavirus vaccines and boost suppliesMakers of COVID-19 vaccines need everything to go right as they scale up production to hundreds of millions of doses - and any little hiccu...
28 Jan, 2021, 11.59 AM IST
Moderna COVID-19 vaccine shows 94.1 per cent efficacy in trial: StudyThe study, published on Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, found that among over 30,000 participants randomised to receive t...
31 Dec, 2020, 01.22 PM IST
World watches as first-mover Britain probes adverse reactions to Pfizer vaccineOfficials from around the world are keen for British authorities to give them as much information as possible about the two reported cases ...
11 Dec, 2020, 11.53 AM IST
Roche links with Moderna to include antibody test in COVID-19 vaccine trialRoche said the test can provide quantitative evidence of the presence and levels of antibodies that develop in response to the vaccine cand...
09 Dec, 2020, 01.02 PM IST