Lunch With The FT: Bill Gates

I am sitting on a bar stool. On the other side of a round metal table, the world’s second richest man is sipping a Diet Coke, eating french fries with his fingers and...

Trichy Switches To IPV In Polio Fight

On the first day of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) immunization drive in Trichy district, 436 children below the age of 1 in urban and rural areas were administered the in...

Off-Label Use Of IPV Vaccine To Tide Over Shortage

Due to shortage of Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) globally, India and a few other countries are stretching the supply of the vaccine to cover all children. The IPV vaccine...

Launch Of Inactivated Polio Vaccine In India

India, once considered the most difficult place in the world to stop polio, will celebrate five years without a case this January. But our fight against the disease is not ...

Sanofi?? Injectible Polio Vaccine (IPV) Launched In Hyderabad

Sanofi Pasteur has launched ShanIPV, an injectable inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), to be delivered through UNICEF in India. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao la...

Six Decades Ago, US Celebrated First Successful Polio Vaccine

Sixty years ago, at about the time you??e reading this, church bells began to ring across the United States. Cars honked their horns. Reporters rushed to phones, and people...

Over 16,000 Pakistan families refuse polio vaccination

ISLAMABAD – Over 16,400 families across the country refused to get their children vaccinated during the first two days of the latest round of the National Polio Campa...

Synthetic vaccine sought to finally eradicate polio

An international team of scientists is to try to develop a wholly artificial vaccine to combat polio.

The disease is very...

Injectable polio vaccine to be introduced from October

India will introduce injectable polio vaccine in its universal immunisation programme from October. This is a part of the World health Organisation’s polio endgame st...