Two months on, Meghalaya polio case shrouded in secrecy
On August 12, the ICMR-NIV Mumbai unit confirmed and reported that the polio case detected in Meghalaya was a type
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Day: May 6, 2025
Can Kerala’s policy to limit antibiotics misuse lead to reduced AMR?
Kerala imports at least 60% of broiler chicken, eggs and vegetables from neighbouring States, many of which have no AMR
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Journal ‘retracts’ controversial paper published by BHU on Covaxin safety
The editor and the publisher have decided that this article should be removed on public health grounds, the retraction notice
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Commercialisation of health services can be a recipe for disaster: Sujatha Rao
If contract management is weak, PPPs can end up with public assets going into private hands, and the government abdicating
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Are antibiotics responsible for inflammatory bowel diseases?
Breakdown of the mucus barrier, which separates the intestinal epithelium from the microbiota, is a hallmark of inflammatory bowel diseases
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Good, but not enough: On the extended coverage of the Ayushman Bharat scheme
Since its launch in 2018, the penetration of PM-JAY into smaller cities and towns has been low in most States
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IACS scientists discover a new target for cancer treatment
A combination of inhibitors that target different aspects of cell cycle and DNA replication makes it hard for cancer cells
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Intriguing silence: On the case of polio in India, delayed official response
The long delay in confirming these crucial details is intriguing as samples from the child were sent to the ICMR-NIV
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Apathy continues: On Africa and the mpox vaccine response
Vaccines are again in acute short supply. As against 10 million doses needed to control the outbreak, just about 0.21
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Zika: More and better testing needed during viral disease outbreaks
Less known is the risk of sexual transmission of the virus by infected men due to the presence of potentially
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Eight years on, NIV Pune still relies on U.S. CDC for Zika test kits
The Institute of Advanced Virology, Thiruvananthapuram, has developed an assay for Zika testing using the sequence data made available by
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Subclinical TB is the reason for slow drop in TB incidence: Soumya Swaminathan
The focus has been on improving case detection and diagnosis of people who come with TB symptoms and in treating
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39% TB cases found during Tamil Nadu TB survey had no symptoms
The most important finding from the survey is that 39% (94 people) of the TB cases detected had no TB
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