Why Are Child TB Cases Rising?

Children below the age of 15 years account for about 10 to 12 per cent of India's overall TB burden. Kindly note the image has been posted only for representational purposes. Photograph: Kind......

Covid vaccine to be distributed under special programme: Officials

As a controversy raged over Bharatiya Janata Party's election manifesto promising free coronavirus vaccine for everyone in Bihar, government officials on Thursday said the vaccine, once ready, will......

96,000 vaccinators trained for world's largest immunisation exercise

Of the 23.9 million vaccinators who provide vaccination under the universal immunisation programme, 15.4 million will be used for Covid vaccination. IMAGE: A medic demonstrates the administration......

Kerala homoeopath files PIL against Pentavalent

A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Kerala high court challenging the rollout of Pentavalent vaccine as part of the Universal Immunisation Programme, alleging it has adverse effects......

How India is gearing up to distribute Covid-19 vaccine

A model being considered is to have a combined cold chain approach - where the agricultural cold chain would be combined with vaccine cold chains. As we inch closer to getting a vaccine for......

COVID-19 Vaccine: Vial, syringe makers ramp up

'The government should put the whole road map together for the vaccine and decide how industry can support...''They should allow the private sector to vaccinate.'Ruchika Chitravanshi and Sohini Das......

'We will price Covid vaccine below Rs 1,000'

'Once the trials are successful in India and the UK, we are certain that COVISHIELD will be one of the first vaccines to be introduced.' IMAGE: The Reference Center for Special Immunobiologicals......

COVID-19: You may need a 'vaccine passport' to fly around the world

Several companies and technology heavyweights including Microsoft, Oracle and Salesforce are working to create a digital vaccination passport or health passport app in the hope that governments and......