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Indian Immunologicals Ltd to Begin Production of Drug Substance for Covaxin under Mission Covid Suraksha

In a bid to augment vaccine production, the government has decided to support some public sector companies with grants under the Mission...

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ICMR to Examine Covishield, Covaxin’s Effectiveness

The Indian Council of Medical Research or ICMR will initiate a survey next week for examining the effectiveness of AstraZeneca’s Covishield and...

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Warning Labels, Limits on Sugar, Salt and Fats in Junk food can Arrest Alarming Rise in Childhood Obesity in India: Experts

Public health experts and doctors, in a multi-stakeholder session on childhood obesity in India, highlighted the need for urgent policy action to...

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India’s NEERI Develops Saline Gargle RT-PCR Test to Generate Covid-19 Results in 3 Hours

Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, India has been making multiple strides in augmenting its testing infrastructure and capacity. Scientists of...

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Modi Govt to Rollout Open, Interoperable IT Network for Digital Health

The Modi government will soon roll out Unified Health Interface (UHI) – an open and interoperable IT network for digital health. This...

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AIIMS Postpones BSc (H) Nursing, MSc Entrance Exams

In the light of evolving situation due to the Covid-19 outbreak, The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi has...

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Samsung Imports 1 Million LDS Syringes that Optimise Vaccine Usage by up to 20%

As a part of the company’s Covid support programme for India, Samsung is importing one million “innovative” Low Dead Space (LDS) syringes...

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WHO, Switzerland Launch Global BioHub for Pathogen Storage, Sharing and Analysis

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Swiss Confederation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to launch the first WHO BioHub...

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Seven Lakh Vaccine Doses will Reach States, UT within 3 Days: Union Health Ministry

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) today said that seven lakh vaccine doses are in the pipeline and will...

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Haryana Govt, Deloitte Launch ‘Sanjeevani Pariyojana’ Virtual Home Care Initiative

The Government of Haryana, with support from Deloitte, has launched ‘Sanjeevani Pariyojana’ (The Life Project), a supervised, virtual home care initiative to...

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No Reason to Believe Covid-19 will Disproportionately Affect Children in Third Wave: NTAGI’s Dr N K Arora

Chairman of India’s COVID-19 Working Group of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) Dr N K Arora has stated that...

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Zydus Cadila Launches Breast Cancer Treatment Drug Ujvira

Healthcare major Zydus Cadila has launched Trastuzumab Emtansine, the first Antibody Drug Conjugate (ADC) biosimilar and a “highly” effective drug for treating...