COVID-19 patients to be given 2 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine within 21-28 days period: WHO MD Bureau6 Jan 2021 12:26 AM ISTGeneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said that Covid-19 patients should be given two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine within a...
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine gets emergency use approval from WHO MD Bureau1 Jan 2021 11:51 AM ISTThis is the first time WHO has granted emergency validation to a Covid-19 vaccine since the outbreak began a year ago.
UK COVID variant had 23 mutations in just months- Is it a cause of concern Medha Baranwal24 Dec 2020 1:59 PM ISTA new SARS-CoV-2 variant has been in the news since 14 December 2020, when the authorities of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland...
Health Ministry calls for emergency meeting over mutant COVID strain in UK Medical Dialogues Bureau22 Dec 2020 9:15 AM ISTExperts from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the World Health Organisation (WHO)...
Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, others lead Lancet panel for universal health coverage in India Farhat Nasim14 Dec 2020 4:44 PM ISTThe panel will develop a roadmap to achieve universal health coverage and lay out the path to guarantee access to quality and affordable health care...
The WHO Foundation appoints Indian-origin health expert Anil Soni as first CEO MD Bureau13 Dec 2020 9:15 AM ISTNew York: Indian-origin global health expert Anil Soni has been appointed as the first Chief Executive Officer of the newly launched The WHO...
Biological E Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine gets WHO pre-qualification MD Bureau12 Dec 2020 1:00 PM ISTBE's TCV is a single-dose injectable vaccine, which can be administered to children from six months of age to adults up to the age of 45 and it is...
WHO tightens guidelines on COVID masks for public, health workers Hina Zahid7 Dec 2020 3:47 PM ISTGENEVA - The World Health Organization on fine tuned guidelines on wearing face masks, recommending that, where COVID-19 is spreading, they be worn by...
Vaccines do not equal zero Covid: WHO warns against complacency Medical Dialogues Bureau6 Dec 2020 9:30 AM IST"Vaccines and vaccination will add a major, major, powerful tool to the tool kit that we have. But by themselves, they will not do the job," WHO...
Ayurveda is making impact internationally: Ayurveda proponent on centre for traditional medicine in India by WHO Medical Dialogues Bureau6 Dec 2020 9:15 AM ISTAcharya Manish has unveiled ''Shuddhi Ayurveda'' which has its head office at Zirakpur on the outskirts of Chandigarh. Under ''Shuddhi Ayurveda'' well...
Hackers target groups in COVID vaccine distribution, says IBM Ruchika Sharma4 Dec 2020 1:15 PM ISTTargets included the European Commission's Directorate-General of Taxation and Customs Union and companies that make solar panels for powering...
More data needed on AstraZeneca COVID vaccine trials: WHO scientists Ruchika Sharma30 Nov 2020 3:32 PM ISTLondon: The World Health Organization's top scientist says more data is needed to determine if the coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University...
