‘Contaminated’ cough syrup linked deaths: NCDS collects water, entomological drug samples

‘Contaminated’ cough syrup linked deaths: NCDS collects water, entomological drug samples

The government’s nodal agency for disease surveillance, NCDC, has collected water and entomological drug samples from hospitals and other sites in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan where multiple children have died of kidney failure following alleged consumption of contaminated cough syrup. The samples will be tested to rule out possible of any infectious disease. Once the…

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70% enrolment of participants for Phase III clinical trial of dengue vaccine completed: Centre

70% enrolment of participants for Phase III clinical trial of dengue vaccine completed: Centre

Seventy percent enrolment of participants for the Phase III clinical trial of the indigenous one-shot dengue vaccine, DengiAll, has been completed, Minister of State for Health, Prataprao Jadhav, told Lok Sabha on Friday. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has undertaken a clinical trial titled phase III, multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo controlled study to…

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