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SBF HealthCare : Providing the healing touch
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 4 (ANI/PNN): It is often said that hope is the ability to see light despite all the darkness around and this could not be more relevant than in the context of cancer care. As most people are aware, cancer is a disease unlike any other and the road from diagnosis t
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COVID-19 pandemic helped India to scale up its healthcare infrastructure,
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 3 (ANI): While India has been successful in controlling the Covid-19 pandemic, it also turned out to be a huge opportunity for the country to scale up its healthcare infrastructure, said Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Balram Bhar
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Covax firms urge DCGI to change fact sheet on blood thinners: ICMR chief
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 28 (ANI): India's drug regulatory body has received requests from both Pune based Serum Institute of India and Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech to make necessary changes in the vaccine fact sheet to allow people using blood thinners to get inoculated against Covid-19
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Covaxin effective on UK virus strain of COVID-19: ICMR
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], 27 January (ANI): An Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) study on Covaxin shows a comparable neutralization activity of the vaccinated individuals against UK-variant strain.
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Exhorted ICMR-NCDIR to help deliver benefits of their research to common p
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 25 (ANI): Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday urged the Indian Council of Medical Research - National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research (ICMR-NCDIR) to help deliver benefits of their research to the common people.
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COVAXIN shows high safety, immunogenicity during phase 1 clinical trial: L
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 22 (ANI): In a remarkable finding, India's indigenous Covid-19 vaccine--COVAXIN developed by the Bharat Biotech and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has shown high safety and immunogenicity during the phase 1 clinical trial, according to the findings of th
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COVID-19: Recipients to be followed-up for 3 months after 2nd dose of Cova
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 20 (ANI): Following the administration of COVID-19 vaccine 'Covaxin', the recipients will remain at the vaccination site for at least 30 minutes of the observation to record any adverse event, said the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in its guidelines for
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Clinical trial finds vitamin D does not ward off colds, flu
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 14 (ANI): An Australian randomised controlled trial of vitamin D supplements, led by QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute has found they do not protect most people from developing colds, flu and other acute respiratory infections.
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Emergency use of vaccine is based on safety, immunogenicity data, says ICM
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 5 (ANI): The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) director Dr Balram Bhargava on Tuesday said that in a pandemic situation, restricted emergency use of the vaccine is considered based on phase 2 safety and immunogenicity clinical trial data while phase thre
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Masks probably may never even go, says ICMR chief Balram Bhargava
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 3 (ANI): Hours after two vaccines were approved under restricted use and emergency use authorisation by Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), Dr Balram Bhargava, Director General of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), on Sunday said masks may never g
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ICMR says clinical trial shows COVAXIN is 'safe'
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 3 (ANI): Hours after Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) approved restricted use in an emergency situation to Bharat Biotech's COVID-19 vaccine, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Sunday said data generated through pre-clinical studies and various ph
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India successfully cultures UK-variant of Sars-CoV-2: ICMR
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 2 (ANI): India has successfully isolated and cultured the UK-variant of Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said on Saturday.
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