Leverage the vaccine rollout to mine dataIndia needs to leverage its massive vaccine rollout to use the data it throws up to develop newer and better options. It needs to be forthc...
17 Jan, 2022, 11.18 PM IST
Omicron spreads faster and weakens jabs: WHOThe WHO said Omicron had spread to 63 countries as of December 9. Faster transmission was noted in South Africa, where Delta is less preval...
13 Dec, 2021, 01.18 PM IST
Omicron variant found in 63 countries, might surpass Delta in spreading speed: WHO"As of December 9, 2021, cases of human infections with this variant have been identified in 63 countries across all six WHO regions," read...
13 Dec, 2021, 08.35 AM IST
Pfizer booster shot 95.6 pc effective against Covid-19In a tweet BioNTech said, "95.6% relative vaccine efficacy against #Covid19 after a booster shot with our #mRNA vaccine, during a period wh...
21 Oct, 2021, 04.38 PM IST
HUL ties up with Centre for study on vaccine efficacyHindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) has partnered the Indian government for an academic-based research study which will help understand the factor...
07 Sep, 2021, 09.45 AM IST
India's keeping a close eye on vaccine efficacyFor Covishield, experts will monitor the effectiveness of the vaccine with varied intervals between its two doses - four weeks, eight weeks...
16 Jun, 2021, 08.51 AM IST
Study finds new way of predicting COVID-19 vaccine efficacyThe early immune response in a person who has been vaccinated for coronavirus can predict the level of protection they will have to the vir...
01 Jun, 2021, 11.03 AM IST
Moderna Covid vaccine efficacy falls slightly to 90% in US trialA company press release did not indicate why efficacy has fallen, but one reason might be the emergence of new variants of concern which ar...
14 Apr, 2021, 01.41 PM IST
Coronavirus vaccine efficacy: What does it mean?Pfizer-Biontech and Moderna recently announced the first interim efficacy analysis of their Covid-19 vaccines. The financial markets cheere...
04 Mar, 2021, 03.17 PM IST
Pakistan says China's Sinopharm vaccine not effective for people over 60 yearsChina has said that it is currently conducting field trials for 16 vaccines, while it has so far granted conditional approval to Sinopharm,...
04 Feb, 2021, 10.33 PM IST
AstraZeneca says vaccine 76% effective for 90 days after single doseThe primary analysis of the Phase 3 clinical trials, published as a preprint in The Lancet, also showed that with an inter-dose interval of...
03 Feb, 2021, 05.26 PM IST
COVID-19: Randomised clinical trial on efficacy of Siddha medicine completedNine other clinical trials involving Siddha medicine either as stand-alone or adjunct with allopathic medicine that were taken up throughou...
10 Dec, 2020, 11.58 AM IST
3 Covid vaccines’ efficacy higher than flu shotsAnthony Fauci, top infectious disease expert in the US, had said the over 90% efficacy of Pfizer vaccine candidate ‘is just extraordinary’ ...
24 Nov, 2020, 07.46 AM IST
Shot in the dark: Early coronavirus vaccine efficacy explainedThe jump to mass vaccinations presents new hurdles, in particular for an mRNA vaccine like Pfizer and BioNTech's that must be stored and sh...
13 Nov, 2020, 01.16 PM IST
Shot in the dark: Early COVID-19 vaccine efficacy explainedTypically, regulators strive to have at least 95% certainty that the trial read-out is not the result of random variations with nothing to ...
13 Nov, 2020, 11.48 AM IST
- HIV vaccine efficacy study begins in South Africa
Washington, Nov 29 (IANS) The first HIV vaccine efficacy study in seven years has begun in South Africa to test whether a modified vaccine ...
29 Nov, 2016, 06.52 AM IST
Potential biomarker may predict HIV vaccine efficacySt George's, University of London is collaborating with Bionor Pharma to study HIV-associated immune activation that drives disease progres...
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