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"PM CARES only for vanity": Kharge attacks BJP for "not vaccinating" child
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
Terming it a "cardinal sin," the Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha claimed that 16 lakh children were not provided key vaccines for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTP) and measles shots in 2023.
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Immunization coverage in India for DPT1 and DPT 2 vaccines better than lis
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
The World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) reported on Monday that India had 16 lakh unvaccinated children in 2023, which is the second-highest number worldwide. Nigeria has the highest number.
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Pre-budget meeting with Finance Minister: Health experts urge govt to incr
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
During the pre-budget meeting with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Delhi on Thursday, health experts emphasized the need to increase the availability of hospital beds in the country. They pointed out that the current bed availability is significantly below World Health Organization
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Africa undergoing rapid changes, India looks at it as natural partner: EAM
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
"Now you all know that India-Africa relations are deep-rooted and go back in history. Prime Minister Modi redefined our engagement in Africa by outlining its 10 guiding principles," jaishankar said.
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Bharat Biotech adds ICMR as co-owner of Covid-19 vaccine patent
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Bharat Biotech has added the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) as co-owner of the Covid-19 vaccine patent.
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Researchers discover potential target for cancer immunotherapy
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Researchers have discovered a possible target for cancer immunotherapy. The research, directed by Professor Massimiliano Mazzone, discovered that the CDA gene is one of the most elevated metabolic genes in immunotherapy-resistant cancer. Inhibiting this gene through pharmacological or geneti
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Sri Ramakrishna Hospital's Pulmonologists Dispel COVID Vaccine Fears and H
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 5: In response to the growing concerns surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine, the esteemed pulmonology team at Sri Ramakrishna Hospital has taken proactive steps to address and alleviate public fears. The experts also aim to educate the community on crucial t
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iBRIC organises second THSTI Advance Course in Vaccinology (TiVaC)
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
The course has started from May 27 and will continue till June 1, 2024, at the iBRIC-THSTI, Faridabad campus.
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Serum Institute of India ships its first batch of Malaria vaccines to Afri
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
In a major feat, the Serum Institute of India (SII) has shipped its first set of R21/Matrix-M Malaria vaccine doses to the Africa region, which has a sizable disease burden.
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"Poor methodology," ICMR dissociates itself from Covaxin safety study, cal
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Director General, ICMR, Rajiv Bahl, has written a letter to the authors of the paper and editor of the journal Springer Nature to immediately remove the acknowledgement to ICMR and publish an erratum. He also flagged the poor methodology and design of the study.
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No link between taking COVID vaccine and deaths of people, says researcher
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
On the instructions of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), AMU's Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College and several other colleges conducted research on the sudden deaths of people in Aligarh after the COVID-19 pandemic and found that there was no link between the deaths of people belo
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Serum Institute of India stopped manufacture, supply of additional Covishi
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
"With India achieving high vaccination rates in 2021 and 2022, coupled with the emergence of new mutant variant strains, the demand for previous vaccines diminished significantly. Consequently, since December 2021, we have stopped the manufacturing and supply of additional doses of Covishiel
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