ICMR study finds the drivers of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
Of the 600 participants studied, 524 (87.3%) had taken only one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while the remaining 76
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Vaccines
BHU’s Covaxin safety study riddled with major limitations
If the most glaring limitation of the study is the lack of a control group, the absence of data on
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Serum’s HPV vaccine non-inferior to Gardasil
A phase-2/3 trial of Serum Institute of India’s human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Cervavac conducted at 12 tertiary care hospitals across
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TB prevention: BCG revaccination study in high-risk adults to begin in 23 States
Since the government felt that a trial would take too long to complete and wanted to implement BCG revaccination at
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Now a more efficacious, inexpensive malaria vaccine
The R21/MatrixM malaria vaccine developed by the University of Oxford, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, has been recommended
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Are human challenge studies effective?
Are human studies more challenging than clinical trials, and what are the benefits in a country where the burden of infectious diseases is high?
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ICMR takes the first step in Controlled Human Infection Studies
In the last 50 years, CHIS studies have been carried out with thousands to accelerate vaccine development against typhoid and cholera
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The case for India switching from the oral to the inactivated polio vaccine
As long as wild poliovirus is present and any country continues to use the oral vaccine, the risk of polio emergence is real in a globalised village
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Unethical for India to continue using polio-causing oral vaccine
Switching from trivalent to bivalent OPV vaccine and introducing one dose of IPV was supposed to eliminate all type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus cases, but such cases only increased sharply
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FDA approves first vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus
On May 3, FDA approved the first vaccine — Arexvy — for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to lower respiratory tract disease in people older than 60 years
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Global polio targets set for 2023 unlikely to be met
Since 1988, when the World Health Assembly established the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), wild poliovirus subtype-2 and subtype-3 have
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Influenza virus might have marine origin with fish as early host
Influenza viruses can infect all classes of fish, and Siberian sturgeon may have served as early, if not the first, hosts of influenza virus before it spilled over into mammals
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No cause for alarm: On the Omicron recombinant XBB.1.16 in India
More than three years after the pandemic began, newer variants, an uptick in cases, hospitalisations, and even deaths are being reported from
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