2290 TB patients in Rohtak dist
At least 2290 persons are suffering from tuberculosis in Rohtak district as per the records of the District T.B. Centre here.The District B. Officer, Dr. R.K. Wadhwa said 307 persons had been
At least 2290 persons are suffering from tuberculosis in Rohtak district as per the records of the District T.B. Centre here.The District B. Officer, Dr. R.K. Wadhwa said 307 persons had been
A group of 70 youths of the Nehru yuva kendra sangathan (NYKS) as the 'National reconstruction corps' (NRC) would be implementing National TB eradication programme and Swarna yajanti sahari rozgar
Two workers were detected suffering from tuberculosis(TB) while many other workers were also found suffering from various chest diseases during the examination of 150 workers of 28 local dhabas,
TB stalks every family in rural Barmer. It was a swift span of three months in which six of the 10 male members of the Aladdin Khan family at Babute Ki Dhani got wiped out due to tuberculosis. The
Smallpox has been eradicated, and polio could follow suit shortly. The world can justificably be proud of such far-reaching public health achievements. Friday is World TB Day. Most people in the
The secretariat of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS has officially joined the World Health Organisation's Stop TB Initiative, a statement released by UNAIDS from Amsterdam has
India had the largest number of TB cases in the world, Union Planning Commission member K. Venkatakrishnan said today, quoting a World Health Organisation (WHO)
Tuberculosis kills over 60,000 in Bangladesh every year: Tuberculosis kills over 60,000 people every year in Bangladesh, the worst TB affected country in southeast Asia, according to the United
The Government of India is deputing a delegation to the Ministerial Conference organised by the World Health Organisation on 'TB and Sustainable Development' being held at Amsterdam, Netherlands,
Every day, 2000 women die of TB in South Asia. And according to a study carried out by the Tiburculosis Research Centre in Chennai and commissioned by the World Health Organisation(WHO), tuberculosis
Epidemiological studies on East Timorese refugees in Australia have shown that 2.9% of them are active carriers of TB, WHO said. That would mean 20,000 East Timorese dispersed through Timor with
What began as a trickle at the Tambaram T.B. Sanatorium in 1995 has now swelled into a flood. Though the hospital in Chennai was never meant for them, nearly 40 per cent of all the patients admitted
The only available vaccine against tuberculosis (TB) does not work! an extensive 15-year trial carried out by the ICMR has come up with startling revelations for the Indian Public health programme on
the dual health hazard : Nepal, along with the entire SAARC Region, is facing a dual health challenge in the form of tuberculosis (TB) and AIDS, two deadly diseases that are making a combined assault
Prevalence rates for hypertension,diabetes, heart disease and cancer increase with the development of a village, while those for TB and leprosy decrase, making the last two diseases of deprivation
The Government is planning to prepare an action plan in collaboration with industry to eradicate tuberculosis(TB), a disease that kills one Indian every minute. The plan would help intensify the
A new test for tuberculosis can now diagnose the disease in 15 days, says Becton Dickinson research fellow Dr Salman Siddiqui. The new test known as Bectec 460 TB diagnoses tuberculosis on the basis
Evan as a world is set to observe March 24 as anti-tuberculosis day, around 14 million Indian continue to suffer from this disease. Around one third of the world's TB patients are estimated to be in
A new report on tuberculosis by prominent South Asian journalists identifies the disease as a "global health emergency" demanding urgent attention by the public and the media. The report called "TB -
Govt: The Union Health Ministry has said is in no position to implement the hugely successful Directly Observed Treatment Short-Course (DOTS) strategy nationwide to contain TB. This despite its