Picking the right pharma stock is getting harder; so pick a portfolio: 20 stocks with -23% to +22% downside to upside potentialFor Indian pharma, the regulatory risk is still real. A US FDA inspection can still cause trouble. A plant making an important product or g...
10 Aug, 2026, 11.10 AM IST
Tariff on generic drugs: Loud announcement, little consequence? 7 pharma stocks with upside potential of up to 31%The threat of a US tariff on Indian pharma is no longer a vague fear; or at least that is what President Trump wants us to believe. There i...
27 Jul, 2026, 12.52 PM IST
India has undertaken transformative reforms to strengthen its healthcare system: J P NaddaIndia hosted the 16th BRICS Health Ministers' Meeting in Chandigarh. The meeting established a network for mental wellness research and col...
23 Jul, 2026, 06.54 PM IST
Serum Institute partners with Gates MRI to make experimental TB vaccineSerum Institute will manufacture an experimental tuberculosis vaccine. This novel vaccine candidate is currently in late-stage clinical tri...
16 Jul, 2026, 10.13 PM IST
Bharat Biotech, Biofabri in tech transfer deal for TB vaccineMTBVAC, the TB vaccine, has undergone Phase I and II clinical trials in India. The vaccine has demonstrated safety and immunogenicity. Base...
23 Dec, 2025, 06.56 AM IST
Hope at last: Scientists develop first vaccine in 100 years for world’s deadliest diseaseScientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are developing a next-generation vaccine to combat tuberculosis (TB), one of the ...
08 Nov, 2025, 08.55 PM IST
mRNA vaccine against tuberculosis shows efficacy in mice, results pave way for larger trialsAustralian researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine for tuberculosis, showing effective results in mice. The vaccine enhances immunity...
21 Feb, 2025, 05.07 PM IST
Kansas faces largest documented tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history, health officials confirmKansas is experiencing the biggest TB outbreak in American history. So far, KDHE confirmed 67 active and 79 latent cases in the state.
29 Jan, 2025, 12.47 AM IST
Bharat Biotech starts clinical trials of TB jabThe only vaccine in use today--BCG (Bacillus Calmette and Guerin)--is an attenuated variant of the bovine TB pathogen. This is more than a ...
25 Mar, 2024, 12.06 AM IST
Bharat Biotech begins clinical trials of TB vaccine on adults in IndiaBharat Biotech International Ltd has initiated clinical trials for the Tuberculosis vaccine Mtbvac on adults in India. Developed by the Spa...
24 Mar, 2024, 01.13 PM IST
Clinical trials of new BCG vaccine for TB to start soon, says former CSIR chiefAccording to the India TB Report 2022, the number of 'incident TB patients' (new and relapse cases) notified during 2021 stood at 19.3 lakh...
06 Jan, 2023, 04.53 PM IST
Serum Institute seeks emergency use authorisation for its rBCG tuberculosis vaccineThe EUA application was submitted on March 22 by Prakash Kumar Singh, Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs at the Serum Institute ...
27 Mar, 2022, 04.58 PM IST
Bharat Biotech enters into partnership with Biofabri for TB vaccineThe new TB vaccine, 'MTBVAC', is being manufactured and developed by Biofabri, in close collaboration with the University of Zaragoza, IAVI...
16 Mar, 2022, 08.43 PM IST
UK study tests if BCG tuberculosis vaccine protects against coronavirusBacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine, used to protect against tuberculosis, induces a broad innate immune-system response and has been sh...
11 Oct, 2020, 01.58 PM IST
TB vaccine shows encouraging results against coronavirus in phase-3 clinical trialsVPM1002, a tuberculosis vaccine, is showing encouraging results against the coronavirus infection in phase-III clinical trials being conduc...
14 Aug, 2020, 10.13 AM IST
GSK's tuberculosis vaccine shows promising resultsThe new vaccine, known as M72/AS01E, was tested at 11 sites in Kenya, South Africa and Zambia in adults whose blood tests showed they had l...
29 Oct, 2019, 01.40 PM IST
New vaccine may fight both tuberculosis and leprosyScientists have found that a variant of an existing vaccine offers stronger protection against both tuberculosis and leprosy.
20 Aug, 2014, 04.40 PM IST