New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) Dr Rajiv Bahl has been appointed as the new Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Secretary, Health Research, succeeding Dr Balram Bhargava. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet on Friday gave its nod
New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) In a significant achievement and recognition to country’s efforts against hypertension, India on Wednesday won a UN award for its ‘India Hypertension Control Initiative (IHCI)’. A collaborative initiative of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Indian
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has found in a study that a Covaxin booster dose enhances the vaccine effectiveness against the Delta variant infection and gives protection against the Omicron variants BA.1.1 and BA.2. New Delhi, June 15
The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was on Wednesday apprised of an Mo) signed between the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. (DFG), Germany about cooperation in scientific research and technological development. New
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) India’s Covid-19 vaccine — Covaxin — will be evaluated as a vaccine candidate in the United States, Bharat Biotech said on Saturday. Covaxin is India’s indigenous Covid-19 vaccine manufactured by Bharat Biotech, which has been developed
Kohima, Dec 14 (IANS) The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), following suggestion from the Union Health Ministry, has launched a pilot project in Manipur, Nagaland and Andaman and Nicobar Islands to supply live saving drugs and vital medical essentials in
New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has approved nine systems for molecular testing of SARS-CoV-2 for hassle-free international travel, all of which are considered equivalent to the RT-PCR method. The nine systems of Covid testing
Hyderabad, Nov 3 (IANS) The Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech announced on Wednesday that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has franted Emergency Use Listing to India’s first indigenous Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin. Developed by Bharat Biotech in partnership with the Indian Council of Medical
New Delhi, Aug 27 Balram Bhargava, Director, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), said on Thursday that Covid vaccines are not ‘disease-preventing’ but ‘disease-modifying’, so it is important to continue wearing masks even after the second dose of vaccination. Bhargava
New Delhi, Aug 19 The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday was apprised of the MoUs between the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the GARDP Foundation on Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Innovation, and the
New Delhi, June 4 The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has approved two home-based Rapid Antigen Test kits, to be used only in symptomatic individuals and immediate contacts of laboratory confirmed positive cases. Accordingly, the ICMR has approved CoviSelf,
New Delhi, June 1 Noting that Covid-19 vaccination drive is ramping up, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director General Balram Bhargava on Tuesday said they hope to vaccinate the “whole country” by end of this year. Addressing a press
New Delhi, May 18 So far widely being used as most effective therapy to treat Covid patients in India, the government has removed convalescent plasma therapy from the country’s clinical management guidelines on Covid-19. The move comes following suggestion of
New Delhi, April 23 The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has granted permission for conducting feasibility study of Covid-19 vaccine delivery using drones in collaboration with IIT Kanpur. In a statement, the Ministry of Civil Aviation said that the
Hyderabad, April 21 Leading vaccine maker Bharat Biotech and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Wednesday announced interim results from phase 3 clinical trials of Covaxin, which show 78 per cent overall clinical efficacy and 100 per cent
New Delhi, Jan 3 India has successfully cultured the new ‘more infectious’ coronavirus strain, which had originated in United Kingdom, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said on Saturday. The British Government had recently announced that the newly identified
Chandigarh, Dec 2 With the Covid-19 vaccine in the final stages of operationalisation in India, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said he will take the first shot of the vaccine in Punjab, once it is cleared by the Indian
Hyderabad, Nov 28 Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Bharat Biotech, a city-based pharmaceutical company, is closely working with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to create an indigenous Covid vaccine on Saturday. “At the Bharat Biotech facility in Hyderabad, was
New Delhi, Sep 21 The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has completed the second round of the countrywide serological survey (serosurvey) to detect the prevalence of the COVID-19 disease and its analysis is underway in the final stage, the
New Delhi, Sep 11 The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Thursday published the results of part two of the first national population-based sero survey to check the transmission of Covid-19 in the country. The findings of the survey,
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