Clinical trial for Covid vaccines for children on verge of completion: Centre to HC
India | July 16, 2021 14:02 ISTA policy will be formed by the government and children will be vaccinated when experts give permission, the Centre said.
A policy will be formed by the government and children will be vaccinated when experts give permission, the Centre said.
The trial -- 'India-UK RECOVERY (Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 therapy)' -- will be a multi-centre, adaptive platform trial on Covid patients, ICMR said on Friday.
The recruitment for the clinical trial Bharat Biotech's vaccine Covaxin, among children in the age group of 6-12 years will begin at the AIIMS today.
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Thursday said the US is eager to involve Indian investigators in global clinical trials to evaluate the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 therapeutics.
Vaccine maker Bharat Biotech will soon begin the clinical trial for those falling between the age of 2-18 years old.
A total of 17 volunteers have been administered Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine at a Pune hospital as part of the human clinical trials, doctors said on Sunday.
The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has granted approval to Dr Reddy's, a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in India, to conduct phase 2 and 3 clinical human trials of the Sputnik V, a Covid-19 vaccine made by Russia.
COVID-19 vaccine candidate Covaxin, developed by the Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the ICMR and the National Institute of Virology (NIV), had recently got the nod for human clinical trials.
Ayurvedic practitioners and researchers in India and the US are planning to initiate joint clinical trials for Ayurveda formulations against the novel coronavirus
Swiss drugmaker Novartis has announced to discontinue Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) clinical trial over acute enrollment challenges that have made completion of the trial infeasible, and not because any safety issues were reported or efficacy conclusions made.
The West Bengal government in collaboration with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is set to commence clinical trials of convalescent plasma therapy with the objective of treating COVID-19 patients in the city.
A clinical trial has begun in the US to evaluate whether the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, given together with the antibiotic azithromycin, can prevent COVID-19 hospitalization and death, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Glenmark has successfully developed the active pharma ingredient (API) and the formulations for the product through its in-house R&D team. Favipiravir has demonstrated activity against influenza viruses and has been approved in Japan for the treatment of novel influenza virus infections.
The first participant in a clinical trial for a vaccine to protect against the new coronavirus will receive an experimental dose on Monday, according to a government official.
New Delhi, Jul 26: Clinical trials of untested drugs on humans require certain mandatory standards to be followed, the Supreme Court said today while directing the government to put in place a mechanism to monitor
Top News
Latest News
