Vaccine

In a significant development, Union Health Minister JP Nadda has launched the #Rotavirus vaccine under India's Universal Immunization Program (UIP) in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Odisha Health…

Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech is developing world's first vaccine for Zika virus, which has been declared as public health emergency by the World Health Organisation. The vaccines and bio-therapeutic manufacturer on Wednesday announced…

Agartala, June 3 (IANS): Three children have died in Tripura after being vaccinated against Japanese Encephalitis, but the vaccine is not to blame, an official said here on Wednesday. Health Secretary M. Nagaraju emphasised that there was…

Washington, May 12 (IANS) A new human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine can potentially prevent 80 percent of cervical cancers if given to all 11- or 12-year-old children before they are exposed to the virus, says a US-based study. A common…

Australian researchers have come up with a unique way of preventing the spread of the dengue virus, a mosquito-borne disease that currently has no approved vaccine, according to a media report on Wednesday. The University of…