Panacea Biotec gets $20 million loan from US government for hexavalent vaccine capacity expansionPanacea Biotec has secured a $20 million long-term loan from the US International Development Finance Corporation to expand its hexavalent ...
12 Sep, 2024, 06.09 PM IST
Polio vaccine shortage looms over India with Sanofi plants' shutdownAn impending crisis looms over India's supply of injectable poliomyelitis vaccine (IPV) as French drugmaker Sanofi has shut down its manufa...
04 Apr, 2024, 11.11 AM IST
Bharat Biotech, Bilthoven Biologicals collaborate for oral polio vaccines production, supplyBharat Biotech on Tuesday said it has collaborated with the Netherlands-based Bilthoven Biologicals B.V, a wholly-owned arm of Serum Instit...
02 Apr, 2024, 01.42 PM IST
Covaxin phase 3 full trial data to be made public in July: Bharat BiotechThe indigenous whole virion inactivated SARS-Cov-2 virus vaccine company has also said that Covaxin will even undergo the phase 4 trials to...
09 Jun, 2021, 07.25 PM IST
‘Centre not in favour of door-to-door vaccine’“We must recognise that Covid vaccination is under emergency use authorisation, requiring vaccination supply chains, local infrastructure a...
23 May, 2021, 09.11 AM IST
View: How past vaccine races can help win against CovidHistory tells us that the best vaccination efforts are built on collaboration and coordination. We know that the U.S. and Soviet Union work...
28 Feb, 2021, 12.37 PM IST
India remains polio free, all vaccines used in government immunisation prog safe: UNICEF, WHOThe United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) said the risk of children getting vaccine derived polio...
11 Oct, 2018, 04.51 PM IST
All about the latest polio vaccine scareFew batches of vaccines of a particular manufacturer in three states have been found contaminated.
05 Oct, 2018, 12.43 PM 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
Act swiftly and decisively to avert a public health crisisReports of the administration of polio vaccines contaminated with type 2 polio virus present a public health concern.
01 Oct, 2018, 05.11 PM IST
Contaminated vaccines put India’s ‘polio free’ status at riskAt least three batches of polio vaccines containing 1.5 lakh vials have been found contaminated with type 2 polio virus. The health ministr...
01 Oct, 2018, 08.47 AM IST
Panacea Biotec partners Serum Institute for hexavalent vaccineThe vaccine is a combination of six antigens to protect against six dreaded diseases - Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Hepatitis B, Haemoph...
18 Jan, 2018, 01.06 PM IST
Serum Institute of India acquires Czech Republic's NanotherapeuticsSII, Pune is currently one of the largest manufacturers of MMR group of vaccines and Pentavalent group of vaccines in the world, present in...
25 Apr, 2017, 10.40 AM 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
Sanofi Pasteur launches injectable inactivated polio vaccineSanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, today announced launch of ShanIPV, an injectable inactivated polio vaccine (IPV).
04 Dec, 2015, 08.03 PM IST
Serum Institute of India to invest Rs 1,000 crore to set up new facilityThe company will be making vaccines for pneumonia, rotavirus, dengue and many other diseases in the plant, Adar C Poonawalla dded.
29 Oct, 2014, 12.01 PM IST
- Panacea Biotec withdraws oral polio vaccine from WHO list
Drug firm Panacea Biotec today said it has withdrawn its oral polio vaccine from the World Health Organisation's list of pre-qualified vacc...
05 Mar, 2012, 10.19 PM IST