Techno tracks

Emerging scenarios, new dilemmas

No Need

Requirement doesn't drive immunisation

Off Beat

Tinkering, not marking the great leap

Government recalls measles vaccines

Polio vaccines in India may be unsafe

Ideas to save government money

Coronavirus variants: why being more transmissible rather than more deadly isn’t good news

At the heart of this assertion lies an old foe that has plagued us right from the start of this pandemic: exponential growth

Telangana COVID-19 vaccine recipient dies; govt says no link to immunisation

All three deaths following immunisation in India attributed to heart attack with no disease history

Vaccine Eloquent

Universal vaccination became part of government policy in 1978. A quarter of a century since, progress has been fitful. In some parts of the …

Rotavirus vaccine on the anvil

But will it be effective against the huge number of strains found in India?

No healthcare for Simplipal tribals in Orissa

Potato cure

Edible vaccine for cancer of cervix created by incorporating gene of the cancer-causing virus in potatoes

Clucking in alarm

poultry farms across north India are facing a mysterious viral disease. As many as two million birds have fallen prey to the illness and the …

Pentavalent takes its toll

The vaccine is suspected to have killed at least 13 infants. Experts want data analysed

Immunisation's lethal leftovers

Immunisation is a double-edged sword -- providing a shield against diseases, at the same time generating waste that can be hazardous to health …

Resurgent polio

Eradicating polio in India is proving to be a tough ask. The disease, which seemed to have been contained a few years ago, is rearing its head …

US court indicts vaccines with mercury for autism

Dengue - reality bites

The millions affected have many to curse -- the mosquitoes, officials and the scientific communityby Ritu Gupta

How effective is the global polio eradication drive?

An optimistic note, about wiping out polio from the six afflicted countries, was to be sounded at a conference organised by the World Health …

Get your own vaccine

Down To Earth filed an RTI application to find out the reason of vaccine shortage in India. The response revealed how a plan to promote private …

Half a cervical cancer vaccine

Tests for early detection are more important in India

Pakistan sees 70 per cent drop in polio cases

Government attributes decline to crackdown on militants

The missing public

National Family Health Survey out

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