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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 28, 2013
This occurs due to incomplete treatment, wrong dosage, poor quality of drugs, etc.
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March 28, 2013
GeneXpert can provide results in just two hours and identify resistance to rifampicin drug
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BANGALORE,
March 25, 2013
‘Dropout rate is high as many stop treatment mid-way’
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COIMBATORE,
March 23, 2013
They can source necessary drugs from the Government
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Bangalore,
March 23, 2013
There is a load of MDR-TB samples on IRL in Bangalore
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March 18, 2013
Hyderabad was chosen for the study because hospital infection rate here matched the national average of various studies in the country
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Washington,
January 31, 2013
A small Arunachal sub-tribe has helped U.S. scientists made a major breakthrough in tuberculosis research, giving them new insight on how TB remains a global epidemic causing 1.9 million deaths ev...
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WASHINGTON,
January 1, 2013
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a Johnson & Johnson tuberculosis drug that is the first new medicine to fight the deadly infection in more than four decades.The...
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CHENNAI,
December 15, 2012
The programme was started at six centres in Tamil Nadu
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November 8, 2012
Tuberculosis and the microbe that causes it, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, have dogged humanity down the millennia. This ancient plague continues to blight human lives, leading to almost nine...
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NEW DELHI,
March 30, 2013
M. Konyak, a farmer from Shanghah village of Mon — a remote district in Nagaland — is currently undergoing treatment for drug-resistant TB at the Civil Hospital in Mon town. His village is...
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NEW DELHI,
March 25, 2013
The Delhi Government launched three new schemes on Sunday in an attempt to achieve zero deaths from tuberculosis in the Capital. Minister of Health and Family Welfare A.K. Walia, who launched the s...
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VIJAYAWADA,
March 24, 2013
‘Medicine should be taken for the complete six-months’
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COIMBATORE,
March 23, 2013
The Tamil Nadu AIDS Control Society (TANSACS) will launch under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) of the Central Government a fresh initiative to detect tuberculosis and...
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NEW DELHI,
March 23, 2013
“India continues to have one-fifth of the world’s tuberculosis burden, with the country still registering a high death rate for a diseases that is completely curable by early diagnosis and adherin...
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LONDON,
February 4, 2013
Though the new vaccine, MVA85A, appeared safe, scientists found no proof it prevented tuberculosis, an airborne disease that kills more than 1 million people worldwide every year.
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HYDERABAD,
January 19, 2013
Government Chest Hospital has not lived up to the tag of being a ‘general’ hospital
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VIJAYAWADA,
December 17, 2012
VMM training a group of men, women, and children in folk shows
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November 10, 2012
Did you know that there is a link between diabetes and tuberculosis? Read on.
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New York,
November 4, 2012
Scientists using a new tool can ’see’ for the first time exactly how drugs work inside living TB cells to kill infectious microbes, paving the way for designing more potent antibiotics.
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