Researchers at Imperial College London are planning to deliberately infect healthy volunteers with the coronavirus early next year as part of the world’s first effort to study how people immunis...

India’s department of biotechnology has selected 10 cities where several thousand healthy volunteers could join the anticipated large-scale clinical trials to assess the efficacy of candidate va...

We read a recent opinion article titled, “An opaque model of drug approval”, in The Telegraph with interest. We respectfully disagree with the author, and appreciate the opportun...

The phase-I human clinical trial of India's first indigenously-developed vaccine against novel coronavirus, Covaxin, began at the AIIMS in New Delhi on Friday with the first dose of the injection ...

The candidate vaccine against the new coronavirus disease developed by Oxford researchers and shown as safe and able to induce promising immune responses will be tested in India, among other countries...

Dozens of clinical trials registered on an American database and listing India among their sites for enrolment of patients are missing from India’s own database of trials, a study has revealed, ...

Aparajita Dutta, the widow of Dr Deben Dutta, and her family members on Sunday said they would meet Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal next week to request that the trial of her husband’s Augus...

A special court here on Monday convicted 14 accused, including National Democratic Front of Boroland chairman Ranjan Daimary alias D.R. Nabla, in the serial bomb blasts in Assam that claimed 88 lives ...

Chief Justice S.A. Bobde on Monday constituted a committee of two judges of the Supreme Court — Justices R.Subhash Reddy and M.R. Shaht — for expediting all pending and future rape trials in the c...

Jharia MLA Sanjeev Singh, lodged in Dhanbad jail in connection with the murder of former deputy mayor Niraj Singh, was on Thursday produced in the court of additional district and session judge XIV of...