Minister for Health and Family Welfare Anbumani Ramadoss is on an official visit to China,
Children are most susceptible to the disease, and many of the dead in the outbreak have been under age 15.\n
Indian vaccine companies may lose the pricing edge as the imminent entry of Chinese companies is likely to change the supply landscape in the world, according to Mahima Datla, senior vice-president of Hyderabad-based Biological E Limited.
500 patients are still under treatment across various hospitals in the eastern Uttar Pradesh.
A total of 165 persons have lost their lives in Assam due to Japanese Encephalitis and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome, prompting Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to call an emergency meeting with health officials on Wednesday.
The National Human Rights Commission sent notices to the Union health ministry and the Bihar government over reports of increasing number of deaths of children in Muzaffarpur.
First a scientist and then a businessman, founder chairman Krishna Ella quit his faculty position at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, United States, in 1996 to return to India.
According to highly placed sources in NPPA, the reduction in prices following the latest exercise will range between six and 53 per cent.
The end-to-end exercise was undertaken in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, Rajkot and Gandhinagar of Gujarat, Ludhiana and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar of Punjab, and Sonitpur and Nalbari districts of Assam on Monday and Tuesday.
Six more people succumbed to the deadly Japanese encephalitis in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh on Friday, taking the toll upto 99.
More than 100 new cases of Japanese encephalitis were reported on Tuesday even as the death toll rose to 324 and the Uttar Pradesh health department requisitioned 72 lakh vials of vaccine to deal with the epidemic.
Bharat Biotech started work on developing a vaccine against Zika way back in 2014.
Hyderabad-based vaccine manufacturer Bharat Biotech, which is carrying out its phase 3 trial will publish the data in July following that the company will be applying for the full licensure of Covaxin.
UP government data claims 6.5 deaths a day till August against 16 in 2014, 19 in 2015 and 17 in 2016.
'We need to prove to the world that quality vaccines and R&D are possible in India.'
As many as 11 children died on Saturday and until Friday the death toll stood at 60.
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'The past year has yielded extraordinary results in the strategic, commercial, and people-to-people components of the India-United States partnership, US Ambassador to India Richard Rahul Verma tells Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com in an exclusive interview.
