Mr Badger on the block
According to Britain's farming community, a far worse disaster than BSE is about to strike. Bovine tuberculosis (TB) is on the rampage again, threatening the country's 120,000 cattle herds and
According to Britain's farming community, a far worse disaster than BSE is about to strike. Bovine tuberculosis (TB) is on the rampage again, threatening the country's 120,000 cattle herds and
The Siddha combination drug that has been tried on persons with HIV and AIDS at the Government Hospital of Thoracic Medicine, Tambaram, Tamil Nadu shows promising trends. Tambaram TB Sanatorium
Refapentine, the first new anti-TB drug on the global healtcare horizon after 30 years, was recently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for pulmonary tuberculosis.
The TB control programme has failed, and India is sitting on a virtual time bomb as it is all set to achieve the dubious distinction of having the highest number of tuberculosis and HIV patients by
The WHO has warned against any sense of complacency with regard to the threat to public health posed by TB. In a report, the WHO has pointed out that one-third of the world's population is infected
Tuberculosis(TB) has re-emerged as the number one killer in the world. And the battle against it will mainly have to be fought in India, says Dr Thomas Frieden, WHO medical officer in India. Every
The fight against the dreaded disease of TB is set to get a major boost with the British Department for International Development (DFID) proposing to provide a grant of 20 million pounds spread over
WHO : Many patients infected with TB are gradually returning to Government hospitals following disillusionment with the private-run medical services, says a WHO in a recent report.About 70 percent of
Twenty-four female patients of M R Bangur TB Sanatorium at Digri in Garbeta (West Bengal) became critical within minutes of taking a tablet-Ethambutal 400 mg-last morning.
Tuberculosis(TB), which was once considered a killer disease, is now a preventable and curbale one. Yet this disease continues to claim thousands of lives every year and remains a serious health
A new global plan to stop the alarming spread of tuberculosis (TB) has been jointly launched by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and World Bank (WB) which said Afganistan, Pakistan and India were
The failure of a batch of an anti tuberculosis(TB) drug, rifampicin (450 mg capsule), in a test conducted recently, has put a question mark on the quality of medicines being supplied to the
Avestha Gengraine Technologies a bioinformatics company has entered into a research based alliance with global drug major Astrazenca for discovering a new drug against tuberculosis (TB).
Realising the need for a large number of care and treatment centres in the Karnataka state for HIV/AIDS affected, the state government plans to utilise the TB and leprosy hospitals as care centres,
Tuberculosis (TB) popularly known in the early part of the 20th century as 'Consumption' or 'White Plague' is probably as old as the human civilisation itself. Known in ancient Greece as 'Pthisis',
The Agriculture Minister, T.B. Jayachandra, today said the Government was thinking of paying Rs. 5 crore as compensation for crop lost owing to hailstorm during the recent off season rains in seven
Men are more likely to fall ill with tuberculosis than women, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in Berlin has reported. In Germany last year, 5,619 cases of TB in men were recorded compared to 3,445 in
UN Agencies press rich nations for help on AIDS, TB and Malaria. The World Health Organisation and several United Nations agencies are calling for a major new push against malaria, tuberculosis and
A total number of 230 leprosy and 2113 tuberculosis (TB) patients who were otherwise, abandoned by their families have been fully cured after being treated free of cost for 5 years under a project
Poor and beset with the world's biggest tuberculosis epidemic, India seemed a perfect candidate for free TB drugs offered through the World Health Organisation. But over the past year, the WHO has