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World Vaccination Day: How to register your newborn for free government vaccinesAs the world celebrates World Vaccination Day, India's Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) continues to play a vital role in protecting ...
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donates $1.2 billion for polio eradicationBill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $1.2 billion for the global eradication of polio, which is still cropping up in Pakistan and Af...
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...
Ayushman Bharat, MCI restructuring, MBBS curriculum revision highlights of health ministryThe new MBBS curriculum finalised by the Medical Council of India Board of Governors this month includes modules on ethics and communicatio...
No evidence of polio type- 2 virus strain: Bio-medHowever last week the Ghaziabad district court granted bail to Mr Garg on the grounds that the arrests made under the FIR by drug inspector...
Polio vaccine contamination case: Bio-Med MD gets bail, drug inspectors apologise to courtBio-Med, a 43-year old Ghaziabad-based vaccine maker came under the scanner of the Drug regulator last month when the inspectors claimed th...
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...
All about the latest polio vaccine scareFew batches of vaccines of a particular manufacturer in three states have been found contaminated.
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...
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.
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...
After India, other South East Asian countries opting for fractional doses of IPV: WHOWHO said that India became the first country globally to introduce fractional doses of IPV in childhood immunisation programme in eight sta...
After polio scare in Telangana, suspected case in UP detectedA suspected case of polio was detected in UP's Balrampur district, following which the state health officials have sent a report to the WHO.
Telangana may conduct anti-polio drive in 700 boothsThe drive would be conducted here and in parts of Ranga Reddy with the main objective to cover areas from where the water was coming into t...
Government allays concerns on polio; says India remains polio-freeHealth Ministry said the detected polio virus strain, which was was found in a sewage sample collected near the Secunderabad railway statio...
Injectable vaccine to prevent re-emergence of polio launchedHealth Minister JP Nadda said that though India was certified polio-free on March 27, 2014, the battle against polio is not over yet.
- Melinda Gates commits $1 billion project in India
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $1 bn for projects in India out of $13.1 bn grants for global health, as of January this ...