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Thursday, May 9, 2013
Some private doctors have already started prescribing bedaquiline drug to their patients by importing it
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Washington,
Monday, May 6, 2013
A handheld cancer diagnostic device can rapidly detect tuberculosis (TB) and other important infectious bacteria, scientists have found.
The device developed by Massachusetts General Hosp...
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Tuberculosis or TB remains a significant health problem in Asia and Africa causing extensive human suffering and loss of life. In recent years the causative bacteria has become resistant to availab...
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April 24, 2012
With tuberculosis killing two people every three minutes and the number of people with drug-resistant TB increasing manifold every passing day, even the reports of the first few patients being det...
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March 24, 2012
World TB Day (March 24) calls for awareness of the global epidemic of tuberculosis and efforts to eliminate the disease. On the occasion, The Hindu takes a look at the Kerala scenario, especially against the backdrop of the State reporting the highest level of basic TB treatment failure in the country at 6 per cent.
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NEW DELHI,
March 23, 2012
The growing number of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) cases in India calls for greater urgency to solve major problems surrounding the treatment of TB and regulation of TB drugs in the country...
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Bangalore,
March 20, 2012
The new strategy is to be extended across State by September
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DAVOS (Switzerland),
January 26, 2012
Some people come to the World Economic Forum expecting caviar. Bill Gates said he would bring cassava.
“I don't know what Swiss customs will say about it,” said Mr. Gates, chairman of Mic...
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NEW DELHI,
November 25, 2011
Fund stopped as donor countries failed to fulfil financial pledges
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October 19, 2011
Although the number of new TB cases worldwide remains a matter of concern – the figure stood at nearly 9 million in 2010 – the incidence rate has been falling since 2002, according to a recent rep...
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September 30, 2011
Tuberculosis, a disease that kills two people every three minutes in India, is growing increasingly difficult to tackle, signalling a need for a new line of drugs, says K. Narayanaswamy Balaji, ass...
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CHENNAI,
June 15, 2011
Scientists at the Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC) here have hit upon a new molecule with anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties that could potentially lead to a better drug for the treatment...
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May 5, 2011
As the sun set over the 2,500 year old stupa in Vaishali, Bihar and in the half-light of dusk, a young woman showed me an X-ray that she brought out of a dark and damp corner of her hut. She...
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NEW DELHI,
March 28, 2012
Number of cases is only 10,267, not 63,000
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March 24, 2012
Tuberculosis is one of India's greatest public health challenges but the control programme lacks support from the media, the rich and the famous.
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NEW DELHI,
March 23, 2012
India had an estimated 63,000 cases of notified multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in 2010, the highest in the South East Asia region, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. <...
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MUMBAI,
February 3, 2012
Surgeries, an important aspect of the treatment, have taken the back seat
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Mumbai,
January 17, 2012
Even as health experts have warned that the detection of a new form of tuberculosis resistant to all known medication could confront India with a major public health disaster, the government has d...
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November 17, 2011
It's estimated that nearly one-third of the world's population (more than two billion people) are infected withMycobacterium tuberculosis(TB). According to the World Health Organization, 5...
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AFSHAN YASMEEN,
October 3, 2011
‘Discrimination against TB patients comes from ignorance'
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London,
September 14, 2011
Cases of tuberculosis (TB) resistant to a multitude of drug treatments are rising “at an alarming rate” across Europe, with an estimated 81,000 new cases every year, the World Health Organisation...
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May 19, 2011
Situating the prevention of tuberculosis within curative services is unlikely to lead to a reduction in the overall burden of the disease. Additional public health approaches are called for.
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May 2, 2011
Why has the incidence of tuberculosis in India remained around 170 per 100,000 people for the last 20 years despite DOTS, the directly observed treatment strategy, being in place? Answer: DO...
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