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India registers success with BP treatment, control

Prabhdeep Kaur The India Hypertension Control Initiative, started in 2018, has been expanded to more than 100 districts

Health worker administering a Covid-19 vaccine in Vellore on Tuesday.

‘Vaccination centres must not insist on any document of foreign travel for precaution dose’

Bindu Shajan Perappadan Centre urges States to significantly expedite pace of full vaccination coverage by saturating all eligible beneficiaries and adopt “First Expiry Fir

Telangana

Emotional bond of children and mothers on the decline, study finds

R. Ravikanth Reddy With academic excellence only defining happiness, a study by the University of Hyderabad reveals children believe that scoring good marks is enough to

Kerala

Food Safety licence mandatory for eateries: Kerala Minister

Special Correspondent Food Safety licence /registration is mandatory for all food business operators (FBO) in the State and all FBOs should have secured the FSSAI licence w

A researcher holding an mRNA type vaccine candidate for COVID-19. File

Health

Some short-term benefit of additional booster dose of mRNA vaccine in health workers: WHO

PTI Interval of 4-6 months since completion of the primary series of the vaccine could be considered for a first booster, says the WHO

Health

India’s ‘other’ COVID vaccines: The status of under-trial, approved and unused jabs

Suchitra Karthikeyan While Covishield and Covaxin lead the Covid-19 vaccination effort in India, other vaccines, too, are under development or remain unused after approval