The court had in September sought a response to the petition from vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India, the government and Bill Ga...

The petitioner has demanded ₹1,000 crore as compensation from the manufacturer of Covishield, the vaccine she had received in January this ...

Parents of 18-year-old Rithaika from Hyderabad and Karunya, 20, from Coimbatore had filed a petition in the top court last year, alleging t...

The parents of the girls had filed a writ petition in the court seeking a writ, order or direction for appointment of an expert medical boa...

Evidence had emerged suggesting the highly infectious Omicron variant has the ability to escape the protection two vaccine doses offer. So,...

Noted virologist Shahid Jameel said the notion that Omicron is a natural vaccine is a dangerous idea spread by irresponsible people. "It br...

Two doses of Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines generate lower levels of antibodies against the Omicron variant of coronavirus, accor...

Researchers from the University of Oxford published results from a study yet to be peer-reviewed, where they analysed blood samples from pa...

Professor Sarah Gilbert, Professor of Vaccinology at the Jenner Institute of the University of Oxford also warned that vaccines could be le...

Covaxin “induces a robust antibody response" two weeks after two doses are given, it said. “Covaxin’s Phase 3 efficacy results have been pe...

The confirmation from the committee comes after the World Health Organization (WHO) started investigating a case of a 32-year-old doctor in...

The highly infectious Covid variant — first identified in India last year — has been the dominant strain in the country for the last few we...

Some observers question the wisdom of unlocking even partially before a large part of the population is vaccinated. They advocate continued...

Adar Poonawalla's Serum Institute of India is one of Astra Zeneca's partners in the search for the vaccine and will potentially be responsi...

A phase II clinical trial of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate, conducted in China, has found that it is safe and induces an immune response, a ...

Nipah was first identified in Malaysia in 1998. In India the disease was first reported in 2001 and again six years later, with the two out...

Scientists have for the first time found that it is possible to generate simultaneous immune response against Hepatitis C virus and HIV, ra...