Pioneering research has been conducted in India during the past five decades, comprehensively covering epidemiology of poliovirus infection and of polio, efficacy and effectiveness of oral and inactivated polio vaccines (OPV, IPV) as well as pathogenesis of wild and vaccine polioviruses. It was estimated, based on epidemiology data, that India had a very heavy burden of polio, with average 500-1000 cases per day. Prevention was an urgent need, but OPV showed unacceptably low vaccine efficacy (VE) for poliovirus types 1 and 3.

The SC had brought about such changes in trial laws after the HPV vaccine trial in 2009, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where seven Adivasi girls who had been among the subjects a

MUMBAI: World Health Organization is launching an `Injection Safety Project' in India on World Hepatitis Day, along with guidelines to scale up treatment and care of Hepatitis.

There are many avoidable lifestyle factors that are responsible for the increased cancer incidence, the government and society need to take proactive steps to help the situation.

The objective of the study was to extend a nation-wide rotavirus surveillance network in India, and to generate geographically representative data on rotaviral disease burden and prevalent strains.

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The US government is set to unleash drones that fire vaccine-covered M&Ms in a bid to save the endangered black-footed ferret, a species that is facing a plague epidemic across America’s great

PIL Wants Info From Each Of 3 Centres

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new type of customizable vaccine that could work against Ebola and other disease outbreaks, and could be deployed faste

In a major breakthrough, researchers of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, have identified a protein - Rv1860 - which can stimulate protective immunity against tuberculosis (TB).

A single dose of an experimental vaccine can protect mice against the Zika virus, raising renewed hope of a vaccine for humans, say scientists.

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