The cosmonaut's comments came after Putin touted Russia's coronavirus vaccine developed in record time and named "Sputnik V" after the Soviet-era satellite ... Sep 25
A new WHO survey looks at the extent of the disruption of services for the prevention and treatment of noncommunicable diseases ... Sep 24
In a newly published book, WHO/Europe provides up-to-date guidance for ensuring healthy nutrition and physical activity of primary school-aged children while ... Sep 23
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Coronavir's approval as a prescription drug follows the green light for another Russian COVID-19 drug, Avifavir, in May... Sep 19
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) added that it had agreed to cooperate on clinical trials and the distribution of the vaccine with the firm.... Sep 16
World Suicide Prevention Day 2020 tries to create awareness about suicide prevention and how to help your loved ones to fight suicidal thoughts... Sep 11
World Suicide Prevention Day, observed worldwide on 10 September, has special relevance in the WHO European Region... Sep 11
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons on Thursday that he wants students to be careful not to pass on coronavirus to ... Sep 11
Russia announced last month that its vaccine, named "Sputnik V" after the Soviet-era satellite that was the first launched into space in 1957, had ... Sep 10
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The Russian health ministry registered the first vaccine against COVID-19, named Sputnik V, on August 11.... Sep 08
The report said the data showed that the vaccine was "safe, well tolerated, and does not cause serious adverse events in healthy adult volunteers"... Sep 05
The vaccines are based on a common cold virus that many people have been exposed to, potentially limiting their effectiveness... Aug 31
Beijing health officials said Saturday they began dosing some medical workers and state-owned enterprise employees with an experimental covid-19 vaccine ... Aug 26
Viruses, including the pandemic SARS-CoV-2, are known for their ability to mutate all the time - and often this has little or no impact ... Aug 22
President Vladimir Putin had announced that his country has developed the world's first vaccine against COVID-19 a few days back... Aug 21
We are not at all reducing the regulatory rigor with which we will evaluate and hopefully approve vaccines," Paul Mango, a senior health department official... Aug 17
Russia has said the vaccine will be rolled out by the end of this month... Aug 17
Russia has dismissed mounting international concern over the safety of its locally developed Covid-19 vaccine as "absolutely groundless".... Aug 13
President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had become the first country in the world to grant regulatory approval to a COVID-19 vaccine.... Aug 11
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Russia Coronavirus Vaccine: Kirill Dmitriyev said Phase 3 trials would start on Wednesday and industrial production was expected from September.... Aug 11
US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said it was unlikely his country would use any vaccine developed in either country... Aug 04
A team of 7 lab diagnostics experts arrived in Tajikistan on 22 July to support the implementation and strengthening of the national COVID-19... Aug 04