Vaccine

An infection of the urinary tract (UTI) can occur anywhere in the urinary system. The urinary system includes the kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra. Most infections occur in the lower urinary tract. The risk of developing a UTI is higher for ...

In April 2020, when coronavirus was in full swing and researchers and scientists around the world were looking for ways to prevent and treat the Covid-19 infection, some scientists were testing a century-old tuberculosis vaccine for its effectiveness against the virus ...

State and local health officials announced on Thursday that an adult resident of suburban New York City had been diagnosed with polio following paralysis a month ago. This is the nation's first confirmed case of polio in nearly a decade. According ...

The Union Health Ministry has reduced the gap between the second and precaution dose of COVID-19 vaccine for all beneficiaries from nine to six months following a recommendation by NTAGI. Corresponding changes have been made in the CoWIN system ...

Researchers in the US have developed an inhalable, self-administered COVID-19 vaccine that is shelf stable at room temperature for up to three months. The team found that the delivery mechanism for this vaccine, a lung-derived exosome called LSC-Exo, is more ...

The government advisory panel NTAGI on Tuesday is learnt to have recommended vaccination against cervical cancer and typhoid after examining the data in this regard. The separately constituted HPV working group of NTAGI had on June 8 reviewed the clinical trial ...

Update: As per recent news reports, the DCGI subject expert committee has approved Serum Institute's indigenously created qHPV vaccination for cervical cancer. It will be India's first indigenous cervical cancer vaccine.   Serum Institute of India (SII) has applied to the country's ...

Three doses of the same Covid-19 vaccine or a combination of different jabs work well in preventing infections, even against different variants, according to the largest study of its kind. The findings, published in The BMJ, suggest that the ...

Medicines are not normally needed to treat monkeypox. The illness is usually mild and most people infected will recover within a few weeks without needing treatment. But there are vaccines that can be used to control monkeypox outbreaks, which some countries ...

A longer interval between the first two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine may boost antibody levels up to nine-fold, according to a study conducted in the UK. The finding by researchers at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) also suggests that ...

In the first quantitative serosurvey conducted in March this year, COVID-19 antibodies were found in 3,097 out of the 3,099 health and frontline workers, who were examined, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. Comparatively, more antibodies were found in the ...

The Serum Institute has applied to the Drugs Controller General of India seeking emergency use authorisation for its recombinant BCG (rBCG) vaccine for the prevention of tuberculosis, official sources said on Sunday. The EUA application was submitted on March 22 by ...