Academic researchers in Massachusetts believe the standard BCG (bacillus Calmette-Guérin) vaccine could have a remarkable second use: a treatment to reverse advanced type 1 diabetes. The cause of ...

The bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine, initially developed to provide protection against TB, also protects against leprosy; and the magnitude of this effect varies. Previous meta-analyses ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist ...

New research adds to a growing body of evidence that Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), a vaccine for tuberculosis (TB), is associated to reduced possibility of contracting the Covid-19 virus.

Jane Akinyi (right) holding her baby while a medic adminster a Bacillus Calmette–Guérin vaccine(BCG) vaccine at Forest Dispensary in Nakuru on January 28,2019.Most of the hospitals in the ...

On Monday, the BMC started the much-delayed pilot project to provide the anti-tuberculosis (TB) BCG vaccine to the high-risk adult population from 12 wards of the city. In the rest of the state ...

Data from a late-stage study shows that treatment with PFE's PD-1 inhibitor when added to BCG improves outcomes in certain bladder cancer patients.

Indeed, the BCG vaccine was invented whether the leprosy world asked for it or not; and it has not been necessary to consider the need for neonatal BCG vaccination to prevent leprosy, or to ...