Pakistan's polio cases fell by half in 2025 despite attacks on vaccination teamsPakistan has seen a significant drop in polio cases in 2025, with 30 reported compared to 74 the previous year. Despite ongoing militant at...
31 Dec, 2025, 02.25 PM IST
Joseph Ladapo says Florida plans to end statewide vaccine mandates, experts raise public health concernsFlorida vaccine mandates: Florida plans to remove all vaccine mandates. This includes vaccines for kids in public schools. Surgeon General ...
04 Sep, 2025, 12.52 AM IST
Pakistan reports another poliovirus case, yearly tally rises to 24Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province reported another poliovirus case, raising the national total to 24 this year, with 16 cases in the p...
01 Sep, 2025, 07.46 PM IST
Retinal disorders a public health crisis, need immediate prioritisation, say expertsMission Vision, a public health initiative, has been launched in India to combat the escalating crisis of vision loss due to Diabetic Retin...
11 Aug, 2025, 11.59 AM IST
Pakistan records three more poliovirus cases; countrywide tally reaches 17Three new poliovirus cases were reported in Pakistan, bringing the 2025 total to 17, with 10 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The cases were found ...
27 Jul, 2025, 02.51 PM IST
Polio continues to cripple Pakistan as virus yet again detected across 20 sewage samplesPakistan faces a polio challenge. Poliovirus is found in sewage samples from various districts, including Islamabad. Sindh has the highest ...
13 Jul, 2025, 08.46 PM IST
Pakistan records one more poliovirus case; tally reaches 13Pakistani authorities confirmed a new poliovirus case in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, raising the national count to 13 in 2025. The affected child i...
27 Jun, 2025, 04.46 PM IST
High vaccination, natural infection protected India from Omicron wave: NK AroraAccording to Arora, in India both the BA.4 and BA.5 variants have not been able to spread rapidly as vaccination coverage was high and work...
19 Jul, 2022, 12.44 AM IST
Covid-19 Vaccination: How will the government roll it out?Covid-19 vaccination could arguably be the most challenging exercise India has embarked upon. How will the government roll it out? What mak...
29 Nov, 2020, 10.35 AM IST
Midwifing the vaccine: The When is visible but thereâs much left to do on the Who and HowThe big ‘but’ butts into scalability. The usual sticking point of lab-to-arm is hugely multiplied when dealing with a totally new vaccine a...
20 Oct, 2020, 10.33 AM IST
India is sitting on a healthcare time bomb, and no, it is not the coronavirusMore than a million children have missed crucial immunizations and hospital births have shown a sharp decline, indicating many women may ha...
11 Sep, 2020, 01.27 PM IST
Recovery rate of COVID-19 patients in India best in world, fatality rate lowest: Vardhan"We have done our best in mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our recovery rate is the highest in the world whereas the fatali...
14 Aug, 2020, 08.00 PM IST
PM Modi pledges USD 15 million to global vaccines alliance GAVIThe summit, held virtually given the coronavirus pandemic lockdown around the world, was opened by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ...
04 Jun, 2020, 08.39 PM IST
India's biotech moment: A made-in-India Zika virus vaccineInterestingly, India was the first country in the world that set up a separate Department of Biotechnology to nurture this sector three dec...
07 Feb, 2016, 10.58 AM IST