Kansas sees surge in tuberculosis cases, expert says ‘largest documented outbreak’ in US historyKansas is experiencing its largest tuberculosis outbreak, with 67 active cases reported across Wyandotte and Johnson counties, sparking con...
28 Jan, 2025, 01.13 AM IST
Limited resources used effectively in India to develop technology: US ambassador to India Eric GarcettiThe US no longer just leads from the front but also follows, Garcetti said here Wednesday, while visiting AI research institute Wadhwani AI...
18 Oct, 2023, 10.28 PM IST
India's vaccination record one of the best for its income level: Bill GatesThe development of vaccines, notably in India, has benefited from funding by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In a new book, ' How to...
01 May, 2022, 07.29 PM IST
UN stands ready to step up support to India: UN chief Guterres on 'horrific' COVID outbreakDeputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General, Farhan Haq had told reporters at the daily press briefing on Wednesday that the UN team in Indi...
30 Apr, 2021, 10.00 AM IST
View: Covid set back our fight against TB, but its lessons are strengthening TB management nowIn every adversity lies an opportunity, and this pandemic has provided us with one to augment TB elimination efforts by strengthening our p...
24 Mar, 2021, 11.09 AM IST
A pandemic atlas: How COVID-19 took over the world in 2020More than any event in memory, the pandemic has been a global event. On every continent, households have felt its devastation, joblessness ...
25 Dec, 2020, 06.21 PM IST
Vaccines: 200 years of progress -- and scepticismFour in 10 Americans, and six in 10 French people say they will not get vaccinated against the virus, even if the shot is free.
08 Dec, 2020, 11.46 AM IST
Will learnings and lessons from Covid-19 help India deal with next pandemic?Can India pull it off? Anything can be pulled off if the country has the political will to do so, it might seem like a costly affair but co...
26 Nov, 2020, 06.11 AM IST
BCG shots could slow down Covid-19 spread in first thirty days, says studyThe paper published in Science Advances, a peer-reviewed medical journal brought out by the American Association for the Advancement of Sci...
02 Aug, 2020, 01.36 PM IST
Open for Covid and non-Covid diseases: 'Doctors without borders'The medical aid provider, also known as ‘Doctors without borders’ in the English-speaking world, foresees a spike in Covid cases in the hin...
20 May, 2020, 09.03 PM IST
No, S&T’s not just about IT: Hard-hitting lessons from the pandemicThis outbreak is a lesson that technology being besotted with only one application of computational science is dangerous. Over the past dec...
17 Apr, 2020, 11.01 PM IST
View: The ‘Covid-19 vaccine’ buzz should silence the anti-vaccination lobbiesThe western societies which had led the smear campaign are those turning most fervently to the same labs for deliverance. Hope has taken th...
12 Apr, 2020, 11.16 PM IST
India and US collaborating on combating COVID-19: Ambassador Sandhu"In the present context of COVID-19 pandemic, close collaboration in the areas of diagnostics and therapeutics of the disease is underway,"...
26 Mar, 2020, 11.10 AM IST
Keen to use India's brain power, says Paul Stoffels, Chief Scientific Officer, Johnson & JohnsonStoffels, who is also worldwide chairman of the US drug major’s pharmaceuticals group, was in India recently to take stock of company’s ope...
13 Feb, 2016, 06.24 AM IST
WEF 2015: After Ebola, flu and drug resistance top pandemic threatsThere is little doubt that Ebola would not have taken hold on the scale it did in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea if the health systems in...
23 Jan, 2015, 07.14 PM IST
India looking at major transition in R&D opportunities: Ghulam Nabi AzadNew govt schemes include research units in medical colleges, network of virology laboratories in all govt medical colleges and model rural ...
24 Sep, 2013, 05.01 PM IST