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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 . Updated: 30 Jan 2019

The outbreak appears unlikely to end soon, with infections still abundant in neighboring Poland. (Bloomberg)

Swine fever cases in Germany tops 1,000 as disease fight drags On

1 min read . 08:53 AM IST

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, wears a protective mask during a Select Subcommittee On Coronavirus Crisis hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, April 15, 2021. Top U.S. health officials, set to testify Thursday at a House hearing, are likely to face questions about the government�s decision to pause use of�Johnson & Johnson�s Covid-19 vaccine after a small number of recipients developed severe blood clots. Photographer: Susan Walsh/AP Photo/Bloomberg (Bloomberg)

US is unlikely to ‘just cancel’ J&J covid-19 shots, Anthony Fauci says

3 min read . Updated: 18 Apr 2021

FILE PHOTO: A health official draws a dose of the AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, at Infectious Diseases Hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka January 29, 2021. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte/File Photo (REUTERS)

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Covid-19 vaccines and rare blood clots: Are women at greater risk?

4 min read . Updated: 18 Apr 2021

View of a vial of India's COVAXIN vaccine against COVID-19 at the public hospital in Villa Elisa, Paraguay, on April 14, 2021. (Photo by NORBERTO DUARTE / AFP) (AFP)

COVID-19: Recommendation of 3rd booster dose based more on conjecture than data

3 min read . Updated: 18 Apr 2021

A health care worker preparing a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine (Photo: Hindustan Times)

Covid survivors may require just 1 shot of a two-dose vaccine

3 min read . Updated: 17 Apr 2021

Cadila Healthcare’s Remdac is the cheapest drug at ₹899 per vial. (Photo: AP)

Drugmakers slash prices of covid-19 drug remdesivir

1 min read . Updated: 17 Apr 2021

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India has a double mutant coronavirus variant. Should we worry?

6 min read . Updated: 17 Apr 2021

Workers and relatives, wearing PPE kit, performs cremation of a person who died of Covid at the Nigambodh Ghat cremation, amid rise in Covid -19 cases across the country, in New Delhi. (PTI)

Covid-19 compared with other deadly viruses

2 min read . Updated: 17 Apr 2021

A voter wearing a face mask stands in a queue with others to cast her vote outside a polling station during the fifth phase of West Bengal state elections in Newtown Rajarhat, North 24 Parganas district, India, Saturday, April 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Bikas Das) (AP)

Double masking can be potent to protect people from Covid, study reveals

2 min read . Updated: 17 Apr 2021

Thane, India - April 15, 2021: Vials of Covaxin, a Covid-19 vaccine seen at Thane Civil hospital, in Thane, Mumbai, India, on Thursday, April 15, 2021. (Photo by Praful Gangurde / HT Photo)

Production capacity of Covaxin vaccine will be doubled in next two months: Govt

2 min read . Updated: 16 Apr 2021

Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus vaccine (REUTERS)

EU has not initiated discussion with AstraZeneca, J&J for contract renewal

2 min read . Updated: 16 Apr 2021

Transmission rates of SARS-CoV-2 are much higher indoors than outdoors, and transmission is greatly reduced by indoor ventilation. (AP)

10 reasons why the coronavirus is airborne: Study

3 min read . Updated: 16 Apr 2021

Bharat Bio’s chairman and managing director Krishna Ella

Covaxin may take at least 2 months to scale up

2 min read . Updated: 15 Apr 2021

A health worker collects samples for COVID-19 testing amid surge in coronavirus cases, in Bengaluru. (PTI)

Virus variants inciting India's 2nd surge, epidemiologists say

2 min read . Updated: 15 Apr 2021

Dermatologist Brunilda Bardhi applies laser depilation to a woman at a clinic in Tirana on February 4, 2021. - The demand for esthetic treatments and plastic surgery has increased markedly during the Covid-19 pandemic, with patients sometimes coming also to fix blotched up jobs done by unauthorized beauticians, rather than medical doctors. (Photo by Gent SHKULLAKU / AFP) (AFP)

Rare blood clotting risk more for Covid-19 than for vaccines: Oxford study

1 min read . Updated: 15 Apr 2021

Photo: Bloomberg

Foreign vaccines on the fast track for Indian masses

2 min read . Updated: 15 Apr 2021

Sputnik V vaccine (REUTERS)

Russia says Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine does not cause blood clots

1 min read . Updated: 14 Apr 2021

Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine (AP)

Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine: France will continue using it for above 55 yrs

1 min read . Updated: 14 Apr 2021

Remember that reports of blood clots that may be associated with Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine are exceedingly rare (Photo: Reuters)

I got the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine. Now what?

1 min read . Updated: 14 Apr 2021

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