The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is working on multiple projects to reduce the neonatal mortality rate, and prevent stillbirths in India, the Centre informed on Tuesday.
Union Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda said on Thursday that the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has left an indelible mark on the country’s healthcare landscape.
A 'one-size-fits-all' approach may be inadequate in developing assistive technology (AT), instead focusing on customisation and affordability is crucial, according to experts at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Wednesday.
The overall prevalence of diabetes in the Jammu region is 18.9 per cent, with an alarming 26.5 per cent in urban areas and 14.5 per cent in rural areas, an Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-led study revealed on Sunday.
This initiative is a crucial step towards establishing India as a leader in the clinical development of pharmaceutical agents, it added.
ICMR said that no cases of 'MU' variant of Coronavirus have been detected, from over 51,000 samples analysed, so far in India. This new Coronavirus variant was identified first in Colombia in January 2021. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has designated the MU strain of Coronavirus as a 'variant of interest'.
Antibody levels were measured at three-time points: on the day of vaccination (baseline), at month one following the first dose and at month two following the first dose.
"The aim of the study is to assess the feasibility on whether a person can be given two different vaccine shots -- one each of Covishield and Covaxin -- to complete the inoculation course," the source said.
The new study, published in the journal Science Advances, suggests that BCG could potentially act to inhibit the biomarkers of inflammation by the immune cells in the blood.
However, the study suggests that vaccination does provide a reduction in hospital admission and mortality, the ICMR said.
