Author: Shalini Tewari

IN FOCUS: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICALS, NOIDA A mother walks into a govern­ment hospital with her child for vaccination. A doctor or­ders a blood test to confirm an infection. A diabetic patient injects in­sulin before breakfast. Somewhere else, a couple undergoing infertility treatment relies on fertility hormones. A cardiac patient receives heparin to prevent clot­ting, or streptokinase in an emergency to dissolve a life-threatening clot. A can­cer patient undergoes treatment with a monoclonal antibody therapy. A child with a bleeding disorder depends on a plasma-derived medicine to prevent dangerous haemorrhage. None of them has heard of the National Institute of…