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What is keeping Adar Poonawalla busy these days?

Adar Poonawalla has taken Indian vaccines to the US and European markets. In an interview with Business Standard's Sohini Das, he tells about his plans for mass production of vaccines and more

Huge funding announced to roll-out first malaria vaccine in Africa: WHO

WHO welcomed the announcement by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, of international support worth nearly USD 160 million for the next 3 years to facilitate increased vaccine access to children

Mylab launches combined RT-PCR test for Zika, malaria, dengue

Test can differentiate between seven diseases and give results in 2 hrs

WHO calls for continued innovation, increased investment to fight malaria

According to the WHO's 2021 World Malaria Report, global progress in reducing malaria cases and deaths has slowed or stalled in recent years, particularly in the countries hardest hit by the disease

Malaria deaths in Meghalaya drop from 40 in 2015 to 3 in 2021: Officials

Only 27 malaria deaths were reported in the entire state in the past five years from 2017 onwards, they said

A new study finds importance of malaria drug in treating neck cancers

A study says, hydroxychloroquine inhibits pathways that drive resistance to chemotherapy agent cisplatin in head and neck cancers and restores tumour-killing effects of cisplatin in animal models

Vaccines for malaria and dengue may hit Indian market in 2-4 years

There are several candidates in the works - the Serum Institute of India, Bharat Biotech, and Zydus Cadila are working on either developing or manufacturing anti-malarial vaccines

How the world's first malaria vaccine will protect against the parasite

This vaccine has been in development for 30 long years

WHO recommends broad use of world's first malaria vaccine

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that it has recommended widespread use of the world's first malaria vaccine called RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) for children in sub-Saharan Africa.

Odisha achieved 90% reduction in Malaria cases in 3 years: State Govt

In a piece of good news, Odisha has achieved 90 per cent reduction of Malaria positive cases in the last three years, according to an official release by the state government on Friday

GSK transfers malaria vaccine production to India's Bharat Biotech

The agreement includes transfer of manufacturing of the protein part of the vaccine

India's only quinine making unit set up in 1874, has been shut since 2001

Covid-19 has triggered a sense of urgency to revive this sick unit, as Hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug, surfaced as potential medicine to alleviate the symptoms of the disease

USFDA approves limited use of antimalarial drugs to treat Covid-19 patients

Two US medical bodies -- the National Institutes of Health and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority -- are currently working to plan such trials

US approves anti-malarial drug to treat COVID-19, says Donald Trump

But the FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn later indicated that, while the drug has not yet been formally approved, access to it was being expanded so that authorities could gather more data

Swift control measures would have contained Coronavirus: Chinese expert

But whistleblowing doctor Li Wenliang, who died earlier this month from the virus, was punished for trying to sound the alarm on the outbreak in December

A new vaccine is promising to advance the frontier of eliminating malaria

The vaccine could help eradicate malaria related cases and deaths

Protein provides new hope for malaria vaccine

Malaria parasite cannot penetrate a human red blood cell when key proteins are deleted, Study finds

Why none of malaria vaccines are effective?

Most of vaccines that have been worked on have aimed to generate antibodies against the parasites

Scientists give reasons for malaria vaccines being ineffective

The discovery potentially paves way for more effective vaccines down the track