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Haryana: Lung cancer patient who died in early Feb had tested positive for H3N2 in JanHaryana Health Minister Anil Vij said his department is fully prepared to deal with any situation and told people there was no need to pani...
Hackers attack ICMR website around 6000 times in a day: Official"The contents of the ICMR website are safe. The site is hosted at NIC Data Centre, hence the firewall is from NIC which they regularly upda...
US announces $122 million fund for India to address challenges posed by infectious diseasesThe total funding of USD 122,475,000 will, over a period of five years, be distributed to the three top Indian health research institutions...
ICMR advises against indiscriminate COVID-19 home testing using Rapid Antigen Test kitThe ICMR said the home testing mobile app is available in Google play store and Apple store and must be downloaded by all users. The mobile...
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) says its Twitter handle 'compromised'According to sources, it was observed that certain tweets criticising the government were "liked" from the ICMR's official Twitter handle. ...
If everything goes well India would get COVID-19 vaccine by the year's end, says Dr Harsh VardhanThree COVID-19 vaccine candidates, including two indigenous ones, are in different phases of development in India.
India's COVID-19 caseload races past 30 lakh, just 16 days after it crossed 20 lakhUnion health ministry data updated on Saturday 8 am showed a record single-day spike of 69,874 infections, taking the country's COVID-19 ca...
Apex health research body, ICMR developing portal for information on COVID-19 vaccineThe idea behind making the updates available in regional languages is to make sure every citizen is able to access the information. The por...
Allow all doctors to prescribe COVID tests, Centre to states; Individuals will need to fulfil ICMR criteria for testingThey also pointed out that it has been observed that some states and UTs have mandated the need of a prescription from a government doctor ...
1000-fold increase in quantum of COVID-19 tests: ICMRA total of 25,12,388 samples had been tested by 9 am of May 20, and the testing capacity has been scaled up to 1 lakh tests per day, it sai...
ICMR teams up with Bharat Biotech to develop COVID-19 vaccineThe vaccine will be developed using the virus strain isolated at the ICMR's National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, a statement said. T...
COVID-19 rapid antibody test kit use put on hold, ICMR to check accuracy: Official sourceUnion Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday said the results of the test kits vary from place to place and "it can't be relied upon".
ICMR approves use of diagnostic machine used for drug-resistant TB for COVID-19The ICMR has validated 'TruenatTM beta CoV test on TruelabTM workstation' and has recommended it as a screening test, the apex health resea...
ICMR gives go ahead for COVID-19 testing in labs under DBT, CSIR, DAEThe DBT, DST, CSIR and DAE laboratories have been advised to strictly follow ICMR guidelines before initiation of testing for coronavirus i...
Increase funds to ICMR for robust research: PanelThe panel, in its 106th report on Demands for Grants 2018-19 for the department of health, extended its support to the department's demand ...
Health ministry sought tough laws for drugs, clinical trialsHealth sector made rapid strides in strengthening regulations for drugs and clinical trials and re-establishment of an elected medical regu...
- Budget 2012: 96% rise in budgetary allocations for health research
Research on matters on epidemics, natural calamities & development of tools to prevent outbreaks of infectious diseases has been given more...