Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Nasal COVID-19 vaccine approved for use as booster in India

A nasal COVID-19 vaccine based on technology licensed from Washington University in St. Louis has been approved for emergency use in India as a booster for people who have already received two doses of other COVID-19 vaccines. ...

Medications

Unregulated 'innovation': India's medicine problem

If India is the pharmacy of the world, it's not doing a good job of providing safe products. A large number of children in the Gambia have recently died after ingesting cough syrup made in India. And in 2019, 11 children ...

Vaccination

India approves its first nasal vaccine for COVID-19

India approved a locally developed, needle-free and nasally administered COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use on Tuesday, in a boost to the country's homegrown pharmaceutical industry.

Pediatrics

India, Pakistan fight child vaccination backslide

India and other South Asian countries must deal with a dangerous backslide in routine infant vaccinations during 2019–2021 brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions imposed to counter its spread, say UNICEF officials.

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