The UN health body —the World Health Organisation (WHO) — started the practice of observing it in 2012. PREMIUM The role of ...

Health DG, Dr Patrick Amoth, said Polio can be prevented by receiving the Oral Polio Vaccine and the Inactivated Polio ...

The World Health Organization, in a new study, named the pathogens as top priorities for new vaccine development. The study ...

It has been slightly over six months since the government launched a campaign to vaccinate girls aged nine to 14 against human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination rates, in a campaign hampered by rumours ...

*India is one of the most promising and developing marketplaces in the world. There is a great deal of desire among multinational corporations to take advantage of the consumer base in India and to ...

SINGAPORE – Two updated Covid-19 vaccines will be rolled out from Oct 28 at almost 500 clinics and 10 polyclinics, with the five remaining Joint Testing and Vaccination Centres (JTVCs ...

On Aug. 22, the Food and Drug Administration approved and authorized newer formulations of the two mRNA vaccines, from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, for ages 6 months and up. About a week later ...

The Ministry of Health from Oct 28 will roll out the updated JN.1 Pfizer-BioNTech/Comirnaty and JN.1 Moderna/Spikevax vaccines. The vaccination is especially applicable to individuals at increased ...

As of 2022, only around 24 percent of adults had reported ever getting a pneumococcal vaccine, according to the C.D.C. Doctors have long observed stark racial disparities in who pneumococcal ...

Through this massive collective effort between governments, scientists, health workers, and communities, an estimated 154 million lives have been saved worldwide as a result of vaccines. Similarly, in ...

An immediate ceasefire is needed in Gaza as the enclave faces the additional threat of polio spreading, if the final phase of a vaccination campaign continues to face delays in reaching the besieged ...