Germ warfare

Oral vaccines could soon be available for rotavirus infection -- a major cause of diarrhoea

Breakthrough against AIDS

Two techniques emerge to battle the HIV onslaught

Dreaded occurrence

Polio panic

Shadow over eradication drive

Shared interests

Unputdownable

Rethink required

On hepatitis B vaccination

The jab jigsaw

Polio poser for India: what's the right remedy?

एमआर टीकाकरण से दो बच्चों की मौत से दहशत

शाहजहांपुर में 30, लखीमपुर खीरी में 22, मैनपुरी में 12, फिरोजाबाद में चार, उन्नाव में 29, महोबा और टुंडला में आठ-आठ बच्चों की तबीयत ...

Developing countries trust vaccines more: UK survey

Almost all Bangladeshis and Rwandans feel vaccines are safe and important; most French disagree

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

Rise in swine flu cases before monsoon is alarming

The reason for the unusual increase in swine flu prevalence is yet to be known

Over 7.7 million people vaccinated in DRC against yellow fever

In neighbouring Angola, an estimated 3 million people have been vaccinated since mid-August.

Hepatitis C: India has failed to tackle the deadly disease

Chronic HCV infection accounts for 12-32 per cent of liver cancer and 10-20 per cent of cirrhosis cases in India. Most people with chronic …

Code of misconduct

The human genome may not solve all our problems. One of the most far-reaching consequences of the decoding is the ability to predict people's …

Frontier guards

Invaded and ravaged by germs and pathogens every moment of its existence, the human body has developed its own lines of defence. Among the …

Duty free

Uttar Pradesh can't deliver vaccines to its children. But it wants to import vaccine

US govt data shows 62% of pregnant black women not vaccinated for flu, pertussis

Low trust levels among black adults for vaccines, doctors

Global vaccination rates are stagnant: Report

Conflict, inequality and complacency caused the stagnation and affected the poorest, most marginalised, those touched by conflict or forced from …

Measles is back: cases reported in countries that had eradicated the disease

With outbreaks reported from across the world, measles' eradication by 2020 seems difficult

Green tech in vogue

POLIO CAMPAIGN

Polio poser

Increased incidence of disease in UP raises questions about effectiveness of prevention plan

Magic drop

Easy to administer oral diarrhoea vaccine tested in Bangladesh

Alarm over terror tool

Smallpox scare leads to panic purchase of its vaccine