Norway reports deaths related to COVID-19 vaccination

Situation not alarming, only ‘small exception’ affected by Pfizer mRNA vaccine: Medical director of Norwegian Medicines Agency

New pneumonia vaccine to be introduced in five states

Pneumonia is the largest infectious cause of death in children worldwide, as per WHO 

Global measles outbreak could mar eradication by 2020

While Europe saw the highest spike this decade, India reported the maximum cases between July 2017 and June 2018

India has fourth highest number of measles cases in the world: WHO

The country’s disease incidence rate per million is 29.68, the lowest in the top 10 countries

Big bite

As the malaria parasite and its mosquito carrier become increasingly immune to pesticides and drugs, a recourse to vaccines seems to be the only …

Mode matters

A proposed injectable polio vaccine may cut down the risk of contracting the paralysing disease

Ebola vaccine developed to fight bioterrorism

An experimental vaccine against the lethal Ebola virus has been administered to humans for the first time in November 2003. If the trial proves …

India needs to revise COVID-19 response strategy, flag experts

Let-ups in vaccination campaigns, COVID-19 protocol implementation observed

Shot to birth

A recently-developed Indian birth control vaccine is being debated to death

Ampouled death

Breakthrough against AIDS

Two techniques emerge to battle the HIV onslaught

Dreaded occurrence

Polio panic

Shadow over eradication drive

Shared interests

Unputdownable

Polio nemesis dead

Germ warfare

Oral vaccines could soon be available for rotavirus infection -- a major cause of diarrhoea

The jab jigsaw

Polio poser for India: what's the right remedy?

Rethink required

On hepatitis B vaccination

Lessons from a community-driven rabies vaccination campaign in Kenya

Mass vaccination of domestic dogs grew from a local campaign to a county-wide rabies elimination effort in Kenya as national governments …

Timely COVID-19 vaccination of pregnant women important: WHO

Pregnant women not at a higher risk of being infected with novel coronavirus, but are more susceptible to severe disease, flags WHO

Hook in the gut

Scientists are striving to develop a vaccine against hookworm that is rampant in the Third World

Who let the dogs out?

There is only one solution to dealing with the problem of India’s stray dog populations, dog bites and rabies: Implementation of WHO …

A shot in the arm for abandoned vaccine trials

With HIV spreading fast in some Third World nations, these countries have decided to end months of uncertainity by opting for vaccine trials …

New cholera strain strikes India

A cholera epidemic in the Indian subcontinent is nothing unusual. But now, another bacterial strain that can cause the disease has surfaced.