First priority must be to vaccinate some people in all countries, rather than all people in some countries By Dr. C.D. Sreenivasa Murthy Vaccine is defined as a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a…
Govt’s COVID-19 bulletin is accurate and transparent: Dr. Sudhakar
October 6, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Dismissing allegations of releasing fudged up COVID-19 figures, Medical Education Minister Dr. K. Sudhakar clarified that the daily media bulletin being released by State Government was accurate and transparent. He was speaking at a function organised in connection with donation of Rs. 51 lakh worth COVID-19 materials and medical equipment to JSS Hospital by…
Post-COVID Rehab Centre in city
October 6, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Medical Education Minister Dr. K. Sudhakar inaugurated COVID-19 Rehabilitation Centre in JSS Hospital premises here yesterday, which is said to be first in South India. Speaking on the occasion, he said those Corona positive patients who get admitted to hospital would also be having other diseases. They will need yoga, pranayama or other therapies…
Covishield trial enters Phase III at JSS Hospital
September 28, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The clinical trial of COVID-19 vaccine — Covishield — developed by the University of Oxford and manufactured at the Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII), which began at JSS Hospital here in August, has completed the Phase II and the analysing process is going on. Five volunteers, who had enrolled for the Phase II…
Artificial limbs distributed
September 20, 2020On the occasion of the 105th Jayanti celebration of Jagadguru Dr. Sri Shivarathri Rajendra Mahaswamiji, artificial limbs (Jaipur foot) were distributed to 10 differently abled persons at JSS Hospital auditorium on M.G. Road in city by Dr. Surinder Singh, Vice-Chancellor, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research (JSS AHER) and Sudha Mruthyunjayappa, Trustee, Dr. C.N….
Covishield clinical trial begins at JSS Hospital
August 29, 2020Mysuru District Hospital begins to issue COVID Death Certificates Mysore/Mysuru: The much-awaited clinical trial of COVID-19 vaccine – Covishield – developed by the University of Oxford began at JSS Hospital in city this morning. Pune-based Serum Institute of India partnered with AstraZeneca to manufacture the COVID-19 vaccine candidate. The volunteers received their first doses intramuscularly…
Phase-2 human trials of COVID-19 vaccine to begin at JSS Hospital soon
August 26, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The Phase-2 human trials of Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine ‘Covishield’, manufactured at the Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) will begin at Mysuru’s JSS Hospital and Medical College in a couple of days. The Institute is awaiting guidelines and samples from SII. The JSS Hospital has been shortlisted to take up the COVID-19 vaccine…
JSS Hospital shortlisted for COVID vaccine, drug trials
August 3, 2020Clinical trial to evaluate if Covishield vaccine can prevent symptomatic Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru’s JSS Hospital and Medical College has been shortlisted by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for Serum Institute of India’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate — Covishield — trial. The clinical trial is designed to evaluate if an investigational vaccine can…
41 employees of JK Tyre test COVID-19 positive
July 18, 2020Company ties up with JSS and Apollo BGS Hospitals to screen all 3,500 staff Mysore/Mysuru: Industrial safety during COVID-19 pandemic is back in focus after over 41 employees of Mysuru-based JK Tyre and Industries contracted the Coronavirus. This is the second industry in Mysuru that has recorded virus spread with the first one being Jubilant…
CM to virtually open Mysuru’s first COVID-19 private testing lab at JSS
June 28, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru’s first private COVID-19 Testing Lab set up by JSS Medical College at JSS Hospital will be inaugurated online by Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa at 10.30 am tomorrow (June 29). This advanced laboratory will add to the existing laboratories that are testing samples round the clock. At present, only the state-of-the-art Viral Research and Diagnostic…















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