What's there to hide?

Experts livid at secrecy surrounding AIDS vaccine trial in india

Check the vaccine

Why are children developing polio even after inoculation?

TB tangle

Disease has varied strings, needs differents vaccines

Wishing for a Jonas Salk in the age of COVID-19

The philosophy of the virologist who developed the vaccine for polio is clearly anathema to today’s drug researchers

What the US could learn about vaccination from Nigeria

Nigeria’s highly mobilized efforts to eliminate polio can teach America how to reverse the increase in measles cases and shore up its …

Birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine may not be necessary: ICMR

Many newborns are protected from Hepatitis B infection by antibodies they receive from the mother and therefore, hepatitis B vaccination at birth …

Influenza: The search for a universal vaccine

Flu virus mutates so quickly that one year's vaccine won't work on the next year's common strains. But a new way to create vaccines, called '…

Anti-vaccine poster boy: Is Andrew Wakefield the most hated man in modern medicine?

Anti-vaccine 'hero' Andrew Wakefield was stripped of medical credentials in '98. Now his film has been pulled from Tribeca film festival

WHO: Global health systems have started showing signs of post-pandemic recovery

Most countries have made strides in incorporating COVID-19 services into routine health service delivery

Over 3,000 killed by deadly virus in Democratic Republic of the Congo this year – and it’s not Ebola

Measles is proving fatal faster than Ebola

Africa’s meningitis belt: why there’s a case for a booster vaccination drive

Vaccines that help prevent meningococcal disease don't give lifetime protection

Malaria halt

The one-shot wonder

Colombian gift

Tumour vaccine

The sidekick

Straight to the gut

INFERIOR DRUG

AIDS vaccine delivers

Cellular attack against the virus works

Cancer vaccine

Shot of hope

A malaria vaccine shows encouraging results in trials

Study finds mechanism for mother-child transmission of immunity to chickenpox

New finding takes understanding on how babies are protected against infections such as chickenpox to a different level

Only 5 per cent of people infected with hepatitis B virus receive treatment

While 94 million people out of 292 million hepatitis B patients in 2016 were eligible for antiviral treatment, just 4.8 million got it, says a study

A shot in the arm

Humankind may soon to face to face with a miracle if the dozen odd cancer vaccine trials, currently on in the United States, emerge successful

Vaccination for pregnant women in India