Hope for poor

GM maize to treat hepatitis B

Endgame begins

Experts say India needs to move beyond oral vaccine to battle vaccine-generated polio

Prickly issue

Will the inclusion of Hepatitis B vaccination in the Universal Immunisation Programme help?

World’s first malaria vaccine will be tested in Kenya, Ghana and Malawi

At least 120,000 children in each of the three countries will receive the vaccine

After Ebola, measles outbreak causes panic in Liberia

More than 800 children have been affected by the infectious disease

COVID vaccines pillar COVAX to wind down by year-end, left with billions unspent

Vaccine delivery to shift to regular programmes

Policy draft backs new vaccines

Health experts say new vaccines not essential enough to be in the national programme

New drugs on the block

The development of new drugs could contain the spread of malaria

Weak shield

Chickenpox vaccine fails to work in most children

Immunity divide

New vaccines against TB of little help in developing countries

Minorities yoked to spin on first AIDS vaccine trials

Rotavirus vaccine on the anvil

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

Pentavalent takes its toll

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

Pakistan sees 70 per cent drop in polio cases

Government attributes decline to crackdown on militants

What ails Bundi?

Dinsa Sachan scours the Rajasthan district’s health centres for answers

'South Asia, Africa show poor progress towards MDGs'

India fares worse than Bangladesh and Nepal, says report

Science and Technology - Briefs

News 360°- Briefs

What’s behind the worldwide shortage of cholera vaccines? For starters, they’re only made by one company

Oral cholera vaccine stockpiles ran dry at the beginning of 2024

Measles accounted for most excess deaths as a result of COVID-19 related vaccine disruptions

Excess deaths due to vaccine breaks amounted to 967,000 deaths, catch-up shots could avert 79% of them, finds Lancet study