Is this Indian Covid vaccine better than Pfizer's?

India's first mRNA platform-based vaccine will remain stable at 2-8 degrees Celsius while Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine needs minus 70 degrees Celsius and Moderna vaccine can remain stable for six......

Suresh Kalmadi discharged from AIIMS

Sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi was discharged on Thursday evening from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where he underwent several tests for......

Lockdown, containment measures successful: ICMR sero-survey

The country's first sero-survey to monitor the trend of coronavirus transmission found that lockdown and containment measures were successful in preventing rapid spread of the disease, but a large......

India definitely not in community transmission stage: Govt

India is definitely not in the community transmission stage of COVID-19 spread, the government asserted on Thursday, even as cases and deaths continued to mount with the country recording the......

Ranbaxy, others to scrap 60 drug combinations

The country's leading drug makers, including Ranbaxy Laboratories, Cipla, Cadila Pharmaceuticals, Nicholas Piramal and Wockhardt, will soon withdraw about 60 drug combinations from the market. The......

Ayurveda firms line up clinical trials

Domestic ayurveda companies, eying a bigger pie of the Western markets, have embraced clinical trials in a bid to provide a scientific basis to their therapeutic claims.The move is part of the......

This may hurt Indian drug firms

In what could be a major blow to Indian pharmaceutical companies, the government may choose to define new chemical entities (NCE) in a way that would include all derivatives of a molecule.Thus,......

Torrent may rope in VC firms for R&D

Torrent Pharmaceuticals, which has made significant advancements in drug research and development by out licensing promising compounds and outsourcing of research services to multinational majors,......

Cannavaro fails doping test after treatment

Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro is being investigated by doping officials for a failing a drugs test after receiving emergency treatment on an insect bite, his club Juventus said on Thursday.......