Why we must celebrate India’s indigenous HPV vaccine

Widespread and timely uptake of the new vaccine will save the lives of many Indian women by targeting a highly preventable and treatable disease

WHO allows self-collected samples for HPV testing

The revised guidelines also suggested DNA-based tests for HPV infection is better than pap smear

Did Punjab introduce cancer vaccine based on faulty research by PGI Chandigarh?

Claims made by the professors at PGIMER have been challenged by a member of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation

HPV vaccine deaths: Parliament panel indicts PATH, health officials

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded agency bypassed ethics and rules while conducting clinical trials for vaccine which was administered to …

Most of us support mandatory vaccines for schoolkids, but is it good policy?

Overwhelming scientific evidence proves the safety and efficacy of vaccination to control, yet Canada is not meeting its childhood-vaccination targets

HPV vaccines effective in reducing infections, precancerous warts: WHO

Widespread vaccination programmes can help achieve WHO's global call to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem  

Henrietta Lacks, whose cells led to path-breaking medical advances, receives posthumous WHO award

The scientific community hid her race and story for years   

Missed vaccine shots: Go for innovative strategies to address zero-dose, say experts

Beyond being at risk, children who have not received a vaccine of any kind also become a population that harbours diseases and can transmit …

What are these ‘cancer vaccines’ I’m hearing about? And what similarities do they share with COVID vaccines?

Rather than preventing disease, these vaccines are a personalised treatment for cancer, to combat disease

First ‘Made in India’ cervical cancer vaccine in offing

Vaccine to be launched after adequate doses manufactured for distribution

Kenya’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout has got off to a slow start: The gaps, and how to fix them

Kenya is currently accessing vaccines exclusively through the COVAX facility, and yet supply to this initiative has been dogged by vaccine …

The 'vaccinegate' of Italy

A study in Italy has found major contaminants in vaccines that are used the world over

Cervical cancer: 90% deaths in low and middle income countries with least access to HPV vaccine, screening

These countries also have low rates of vaccination against HPV

HPV vaccination crucial to reducing cervical cancer, says study

States in the US which have a higher rate of HPV vaccination have a lower rate of cervical cancer

Call to make healthy choices available and affordable

Health experts lash out at food industry for putting public health at risk

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'Lifestyle' diseases spur UN to act

Time to wake up to threat of NCDs

As the UN begins its meeting to devise strategies to tackle NCDs, Indian public health activists say it was a wake-up call for the health …

Non-communicable diseases: The unrecognised public health threat

Health is rarely the topic of discussion at the UN general assembly. But starting September 19, the UN began a high-level meeting to debate a …

Vaccine hesitancy on the rise across the globe, reveals cross-country survey

India bucks the trend; Afghanistan, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Korea major concerns