AstraZeneca reaffirms Covid vaccine safety amid rare TTS concerns

In light of recent concerns surrounding potential rare side effects of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine, the pharmaceutical giant has reiterated its commitment to patient safety while......

Dr Fauci, face of US Covid response, to retire in Dec

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert in the United States, who became a household name during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced on Monday that he will step down in December for the......

Covid vax tweak can help against new variants: Guleria

The COVID-19 vaccines can be "tweaked" to provide protection against new variants of the virus, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, Director Dr Randeep Guleria said. His......

Pharma majors shift focus to inhalants, nasal spray for Covid

While Lupin is working on a Remdesivir powder for inhalation, Glenmark has tied up with a Canadian Biotech firm for nitric oxide nasal spray that reduces Sars-CoV-2 viral load and thus......

Cipla working on multiple therapies to fight spread of COVID

Cipla is among the three Indian companies that signed a non-exclusive licensing agreement with US-based Gilead Sciences to make and distribute the latter’s repurposed Ebola drug Remdesivir in......

How the world will change after coronavirus

'Tens of millions will be working from home for months at a time, which means the smartest brains in business will be focussed on creating more efficient WFH processes,' predicts Devangshu Datta.......

Ebola unites football icons Zidane, Ronaldo

Zinedine Zidane, right, greets Ronaldo. Photograph: Buda Mendes/Getty Images Football idols Zinedine Zidane and Ronaldo will lead a star-studded team in a friendly match on Monday aimed at raising......

Actor Elba joins forces with footballers Vieira, Toure to fight Ebola

In one of the campaign's spots, Elba plays a football coach giving a halftime talk during West Africa's "life or death" match against Ebola and in another, footballers Yaya Touré, Carlton......

African players in Europe feel Ebola backlash

African footballers based at European clubs, especially those travelling back to the continent from international duty, began on Friday to feel the backlash from fears over the Ebola virus......

Ebola fears won't affect African Nations Cup schedule

A health worker brings a woman suspected of having contracted the Ebola virus to an ambulance in Monrovia, Liberia. Photograph: James Giahyue/Reuters African Nations Cup's organisers reportedly......

Sports Shorts: Pedrosa wins to end Marquez's run of victories

Dani Pedrosa ended Honda team mate Marc Marquez's hopes of winning 11 consecutive MotoGP races this season with victory at the Czech Republic Grand Prix on Sunday. Pedrosa, riding a Repsol Honda,......