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A Science and Technology Blog

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Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

Month: January 2020

Clinical trialHealthPublic HealthResearchScienceVaccines

‘Serum’s pneumococcal vaccine will be available by June 2020’

Serum Institute is optimistic that its pneumococcal vaccine will be available in India by June 2020. The vaccine is yet

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IMA condemns attack on doctors, nurses during JNU violence

In a strongly-worded statement, the Indian Medical Association has condemned attack on doctors and nurses when they tried providing medical

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Clinical trialCommunicable diseaseHealthPublic HealthResearchScienceVaccines

WHO prequalifies Serum’s low-cost pneumococcal vaccine

WHO has prequalified Pune-based Serum Institute’s pneumococcal conjugate vaccine made of 10 serotypes that are widely prevalent and cause pneumonia

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ResearchScience

IIT Guwahati use contrasting water wetting behaviour for anti-counterfeiting

IIT Guwahati researchers have used the contrasting water wetting behaviour for anti-counterfeiting measures. Unlike the rest of the surface, micropatterns

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HealthResearchResearch ethicsScience

NEJM retracts Chandigarh doctors’ image for plagiarism, case concoction

Indian doctors at the Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh have their ‘Image in Clinical Medicine’ photo published in the

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HealthPublic HealthResearchScienceTuberculosisVaccines

TB: Delivering BCG vaccine intravenously vastly improves efficacy

Changing the route of BCG vaccine administration from intradermal to intravenous and using a higher dosage showed vast improvement in

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Health

When hospitals become a theatre for police brutality

The wanton abuse of power by Karnataka police inside a hospital in Mangaluru a few days later set an even

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