Shastry V. Mallady

Link between climate change and health will be analysed

MADURAI: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) will form a separate cell to study climate change and its impact on public health.

Clinical trials sustain Ahmedabad

Realising that the recent spread of the dengue virus in the districts and in the city could spell disaster in the post-puja days ~ particularly if two different types of dengue viruses are circulating in the state ~ the state health department has taken an initiative to detect the virus types.

India will mark the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi

You may know all about the link between lost kingdoms and horseshoe nails without ever having anticipated this connection. And it isn't something out of Ripley's. No less a person than Kolkata's mayor has blamed the city

KOLKATA, Sept. 22: At a time when dengue has caught Kolkata off guard, the city-based virus unit of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has been blamed for keeping the state health department in the dark regarding the spread of the disease. The ICMR virus unit has helped the state over the past few years by carry out dengue confirmation tests.

Considering western UP to be a peculiar case in polio eradication, the WHO and Indian Council of Medical Research will carry out a study to ascertain the level of immunity among the children against the virus following the immunisation programme over the last one year.

Experts are of the opinion that for various reasons western UP has become a peculiar case requiring more doses of vaccine than any other part of the world to develop the same level of immunity in a child.

MAULSHREEE SETH

LUCKNOW, AUGUST 31: After the state Government

Business Standard / New Delhi August 27, 2008, 1:02 IST

A supportive eco-system is developing to ensure safety but since the system is by and large self-regulatory, it will be a while before it is fully secure.

N K Ganguly,
Former Director General,
Indian Council of Medical Research

These trials are not easy ... They need a surveillance infrastructure and a supporting eco-system. Both are developing. In another five years, our clinical trials environment will be very good

The survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy secure from the government promises to implement part of their demands.

Akash Kushwaha, a seven-year-old boy who suffers from malformed eyes owing to contaminated groundwater, at a press conference held to highlight the plight of the gas victims, in New Delhi on April 29.

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