Even as 3.31 crore children in the age bracket of 15-17 years have received their first dose of Covid-19 vaccination, Dr NK Arora, chairman...

The Hyderabad-based company had conducted phase-2/3, open-label, and multi-centre studies to evaluate the safety, reactogenicity, and immun...

The advisory group will contemplate the need for a booster dose to the eligible population and will form guidelines on paediatric immunisat...

No country is administering a Covid vaccine to children as young as 2 years. US and UK have introduced vaccines for adolescents between 16 ...

Indigenously developed Zydus Cadila's needle-free Covid-19 vaccine ZyCoV-D has received emergency use authorisation from the drug regulator...

The plan, which has been cleared by the Empowered Group responsible for augmenting workforce for a third wave, also makes it clear that the...

National health mission (NHM) stated that he total number of COVID Infected persons in Assam has been 2, 80,504. Out of this, 34,606 within...

“We have come up with some data on the vulnerable population including children that are at higher risk during the third wave and we will p...

Sachin Solat, a member of the district paediatric task force, said the figures were not at all alarming as far as children and teenagers ge...

In an interview, Dr N K Arora, Chairman of India's COVID-19 Working Group of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI),...

While the influenza shot that contains two subtypes of influenza A and two lineages of influenza B is widely available in market, it is not...

With a surge in cases overwhelming the healthcare system, the health ministry issued two separate documents – revised guidelines for home i...

The new mid-stage trial will determine whether the vaccine is effective on people between the ages of 6 and 17, according to an emailed sta...

Warning that children are being left behind in the fight against HIV, it said that prevention efforts and treatment for children remain som...

In 2009, Sandhya founded Samiksha Foundation as a non-clinical mission. Her two-year discussions helped prepare the framework for her inter...

Gender bias among families of paediatric cancer patients worrying, say doctors.

In a charitable initiative, an NRI doctor has offered free paediatric cardiac services for 50 needy Filipino children in the next two years