Life after Covid turns rocky for reshaped health-care businesses like Pfizer to ModernaThe waning of the COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping the healthcare industry once again. Vaccine makers and pharmacy chains are seeing a declin...
17 Oct, 2023, 03.40 PM IST
Tardy Covid vaccine makers under fire for trials in developing nationsVaccine developers only bringing shots to the testing phase now are finding it an uphill battle, with the developed world so highly vaccina...
27 Dec, 2021, 07.29 PM IST
Global scale via smart vaccine procurementCentral procurement of vaccines is a tool to boost the capacity of India’s vaccine makers. To inoculate the entire adult population, it tak...
16 Jun, 2021, 11.23 PM IST
Major shift in Covid vaccination policy, PM Modi says Centre to supply free vaccines to states for 18 years and aboveThe arrangement that had kicked in from May 1 in which 25% was procured by states from vaccine makers will no longer be in place. the Centr...
07 Jun, 2021, 07.17 PM IST
Vaccine tech transfer hard, next six months key in Covid fight, says leading vaccine makersOn Friday, senior executives from companies such as Moderna, GSK and Bharat Biotech addressed various issues on Covid vaccines, including e...
24 Apr, 2021, 08.29 AM IST
Indian vaccine makers tap Rs 900 crore government funding schemeIndian vaccine makers such as Serum Institute and Bharat Biotech have appealed to the government to fund the expansion of their vaccine man...
12 Apr, 2021, 08.37 AM IST
Vaccine nationalism is threatening WHO’s 2021 goal of 2 billion doses, says Adar PoonawallaMany manufacturers, including Serum, already have missed timelines and commitments, Poonawalla said in an interview. It will take two to th...
17 Mar, 2021, 12.05 PM IST
Covid vaccine makers to be liable for adverse effects of jabsIndian vaccine makers will be held liable for any complications or adverse effects that arise from the administration of their jabs. The go...
14 Jan, 2021, 08.21 AM IST
India yet to take a call on giving indemnity to vaccine makersA number of countries including the US have shifted at least part of the liability for vaccines to the government considering the extraordi...
06 Jan, 2021, 09.59 AM IST
CEPI to invest $5m in Biological E’s projectCEPI has also agreed to an initial contribution of up to $5 million to Hyderabad-based Biological E towards the cost of scaling up the proc...
30 Dec, 2020, 08.28 AM IST
Government must indemnify vaccine makers against all lawsuits: Adar PoonawallaLast month, Serum had rejected charges that a 40-year-old man who took part in the 'Covishield' vaccine trial in Chennai had levelled again...
19 Dec, 2020, 06.22 PM IST
In Maharashtra, many netas want vaccine firstDistrict and civic officials told ET they are facing pressure from politicians to include their names as well as those of their family memb...
01 Dec, 2020, 01.25 PM IST
Indian vaccine makers - Serum and Gennova - set to host over 20 foreign diplomats this weekThe move comes as the Indian government thinks that it has sufficient doses of vaccine for its population and can also supply to other nati...
25 Nov, 2020, 08.47 AM IST
Are vaccine makers influencing India’s immunisation plan?Immunisation guidelines are tweaked to include products of the funding companies. Paediatricians, in turn, get hefty margins, a letter has ...
25 Dec, 2016, 10.37 AM IST
- Now, China turns the heat on India’s vaccine makers
After spitting fire at Indian pharma sector's active pharma ingredients (APIs) makers, the Chinese dragon is now turning its wrath on India...
20 Dec, 2012, 09.08 AM IST
- Vaccine makers demand price hike
Private vaccine manufacturers have asked the government to hike the procurement price of vaccines claiming it is unviable to supply the med...
25 Feb, 2009, 07.57 PM IST
- Vaccine makers eye Unicef market for new launches
Indian vaccine makers have begun targeting the Unicef market to launch their novel vaccine molecules.
01 Nov, 2008, 12.20 AM IST