Indian Council Of Medical Research (ICMR)

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding deterioration of Nayar river, Uttarakhand, 05/06/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …

Deadline fails

Committee yet to issue guidelines for monitoring probiotics PEOPLE who buy probiotic drinks, ice creams and curds in India cannot really be certain of their health benefits. There is no monitoring mechanism for checking the genuineness of these products or verifying the claims on their labels. A committee set up …

As good as embryonic stem cells

Researchers find a virus-free way of turning adult cells into unspecialized stem cells THE Obama government of the US recently lifted the 8-year ban imposed by the Bush administration on human embryonic stem cell research. The ban had come about because of an ongoing debate on the use of embryos …

Integrated disease vector control of malaria: A success story based in Assam, Northeastern India

Integrated Disease Vector Control (IDVC) project had its beginning in Kheda district of Gujarat way back in 1983. With the demonstrated success of malaria control using environmental approaches in select villages of Nadiad Taluka, the project jointly funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research and Ministry of Health and …

Long-term planning needed to tackle non-communicable diseases: ICMR chief

CHENNAI: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) will start a major study on diagnostic Indian Normal Values later this year, and in three or four years time, India will have its own set of diagnostic criteria, V.M. Katoch, Director-General, said on Friday. The project will evolve values considered

AIDS vaccine under trial

Will the combo drug succeed? Clinical trial of a combination vaccine against AIDS has begun in India. The Indian Council of Medical Research, the body governing biomedical research in India, is selecting volunteers for the trial. ADVAX and tbc-m 4 vaccines have been tested individually and now the researchers are …

25 yrs later, study on Bhopal fallout

ICMR To Look Into Effects After 25,000 Fall Prey To Gas Leak-Related Ailments Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: Indian scientists are all set to take a relook at one of the country

Global warming is aiding the spread of mosquito-borne diseases

Patiala: Global warming is worsening the situation by way of fomenting the spread of mosquito-transmitted diseases, said Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dam, USA, Karamjit Singh Rai, while presiding on the concluding day of the three-day international conference on Entomology at Department of Zoology, Punjabi University, on …

Exactly Like Papa

To Clone Or Not To Clone... * No-cloning zones: The countries that oppose all forms of cloning include Australia, Germany, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uzbekistan, Zambia. Australia is reviewing its stand on therapeutic cloning. Many scientists in the US too feel that with a new …

ICMR: Give compensation for harm due to research

New Delhi: Mothers undergoing clinical trials which harm their unborn child may soon be able to demand compensation from researchers conducting the trial. According to Indian Council of Medical Research

New MoU seeks to control malaria

The National Vector Borne Diseases Control Programme, Government of India and Government of Goa with the NIMR, Government of India along with other bodies namely the Goa University, Voluntary Health Association of Goa, Goa Medical College and others will now be working together for three years as partners for evidence-based …

First bivalent polio vaccine being tested in India

NEW DELHI: The world's first bivalent vaccine - that will protect children against both P1 and P3 strains of polio virus - is being tested in India. Around 900 newborn children in Indore, Chennai and Pune have already been given two doses of the oral bivalent vaccine (BOPV). Scientists at …

ICMR to set up separate cell for climate change study

Shastry V. Mallady Link between climate change and health will be analysed MADURAI: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) will form a separate cell to study climate change and its impact on public health. The link between climate change and health would be analysed through this proposed cell by …

New dengue virus may hit city

Realising that the recent spread of the dengue virus in the districts and in the city could spell disaster in the post-puja days ~ particularly if two different types of dengue viruses are circulating in the state ~ the state health department has taken an initiative to detect the virus …

India imposes ban on smoking

India will mark the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi

Global warmings causing malaria: Mayor

You may know all about the link between lost kingdoms and horseshoe nails without ever having anticipated this connection. And it isn't something out of Ripley's. No less a person than Kolkata's mayor has blamed the city

ICMR blamed for dengue spread

KOLKATA, Sept. 22: At a time when dengue has caught Kolkata off guard, the city-based virus unit of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has been blamed for keeping the state health department in the dark regarding the spread of the disease. The ICMR virus unit has helped the state …

WHO, ICMR to study polio cases in UP

Considering western UP to be a peculiar case in polio eradication, the WHO and Indian Council of Medical Research will carry out a study to ascertain the level of immunity among the children against the virus following the immunisation programme over the last one year. Experts are of the opinion …

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