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The company says its stents are made of biodegradable material, and are an alternative to the traditional metal stents (Bloomberg)

Expert panel to review Meril’s price exemption bid for stent

2 min read . 30 Jan 2019
Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Serum Institute of India.

COVID vaccine distribution: India will be our priority, said SII CEO Poonawalla

1 min read . 07:58 PM IST
Serum Institute chief executive officer Adar Poonawalla. mint (MINT_PRINT)

Oxford COVID vaccine: SII to apply for emergency authorisation in next 2 weeks

2 min read . 07:19 PM IST
The dry swab-direct RT-PCR testing method is aimed at scaling up the testing by two to three fold (AP)

To ramp up COVID-19 testing, ICMR approves dry swab-direct RT-PCR method

2 min read . 04:30 PM IST
FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a small bottle labeled with a

Will COVID-19 vaccines protect us? Does efficacy equal effectiveness?

2 min read . 27 Nov 2020
CCMB researchers found that VTM can be totally avoided

COVID-19: ICMR approves dry swab testing, 'game changing technology', says CCMB

1 min read . 27 Nov 2020
Russia says requests for more than 1.2 billion doses of Sputnik V vaccine has come from over 50 countries (REUTERS)

Russia to vaccinate more than 4 lakh armed forces against COVID-19

1 min read . 27 Nov 2020
Indian pharmaceutical company Hetero have agreed to produce over 100 million doses per year in India of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19,

Russia's Sputnik V covid vaccine to be produced in India

2 min read . 27 Nov 2020
Inactivated traditional vaccines use a virus germ that has been killed, while others use a weakened or 'attenuated' strain (Photo: AP)

Covid-19 vaccines finally at hand? But when will a jab be available?

7 min read . 26 Nov 2020
Astra shares rose 0.5% Thursday after slumping 6.2% earlier in the week. (Photo: Reuters)

AstraZeneca faces more vaccine questions after manufacturing error

1 min read . 26 Nov 2020
German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech during a session at the lower house of parliament today

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says covid vaccine could arrive before Christmas

1 min read . 26 Nov 2020
FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020 file photo, senior Clinical Research Nurse Ajithkumar Sukumaran prepares the COVID 19 vaccine to administer to a volunteer, at a clinic in London. The British government on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020 says it may take part in a study that tries to deliberately infect volunteers who have been given an experimental vaccine against the coronavirus in an effort to more quickly determine if the vaccine works. The approach, called a challenge study, is risky but proponents think it may produce results faster than typical studies, which wait to see if volunteers who have been given an experimental treatment or a dummy version get sick. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File) (AP)

When and how will covid-19 vaccines become available?

4 min read . 25 Nov 2020
FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2020, file photo, a Russian medical worker administers a shot of Russia's experimental Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Moscow, Russia. Developers of Sputnik V, Russia's COVID-19 vaccine, announced Wednesday that the jab appeared to be 92% effective in advanced trials, in a statement that comes just two days after a similar one from Pfizer Inc. and indicates Moscow's eagerness to get ahead in the worldwide race for a successful coronavirus vaccine. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr, File) (AP)

Europe says first covid vaccinations possible by Christmas

1 min read . 25 Nov 2020
BioNTech is also working with US pharma giant Pfizer on the vaccine and the partners said last week they were hoping to win approval in the US and Europe this year (Photo: AP)

BioNTech, Fosun start Phase II trial of covid-19 vaccine in China

1 min read . 25 Nov 2020
While Delhi recorded 38,501 active cases, Uttarakhand has 4638 active cases (Photo: Bloomberg)

Uttarakhand mandates Covid test at Dehradun airport for people coming from Delhi

1 min read . 25 Nov 2020
The chances of such direct contamination occurring is relatively low as cash is typically stored securely in tills or wallets, the study found

Covid-19 transmission risk from using banknotes is low: BoE study

1 min read . 24 Nov 2020
Moderna COVID-19 vaccine (AFP)

EU reaches deal for supply of 160 million doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine

1 min read . 24 Nov 2020
Vir Biotechnology Inc.’s stock has lost some of its luster after quadrupling earlier this year as competition heats up for Covid-19 antibody therapies.

Vir Biotech CEO says his covid-19 medicine offers promise for next outbreak

2 min read . 24 Nov 2020
Slaoui revealed the placebo-arm data after Astra and Oxford said their vaccine prevented 70% of people from getting Covid-19 in large trials in the UK and Brazil (Photo: Mint)

AstraZeneca data hint at halting severe covid, Moncef Slaoui Says

3 min read . 24 Nov 2020
India's testing infrastructure has seen a significant boost with 2,134 laboratories across the country currently

Covid-19: Daily positivity rate dips below 4% in India

2 min read . 24 Nov 2020

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