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Tuberculosis
Science and Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2011
ARCHAEOLOGY
Dino with a horn
Diagnosis in two hours
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2010
TUBERCULOSIS has been on the rise globally, and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis even more so. Of the estimated 9.4 million cases worldwide, around half a million are drug resistant.
A bad example from the US
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2010
India has played a crucial role in making essential medicines available and affordable for patients in the developing world through generic drugs. This has been possible by linking India’s patent policies and laws to public interest.
Cooking on toxic fumes
@vibhavarshney Issue Date: Jan 15, 2010
Nepal has a high incidence of tuberculosis. Nepal is also among the South Asian countries where a lot of biomass is burnt for fuel. The two facts provided a group with reasons to link indoor air pollution from fuels with tuberculosis—something that six studies have so far have tried to do, unsuccessfully.
Towards least resistance
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2010
INDIA contributes 20 per cent of the global burden of new tuberculosis cases. In 2008, 1.8 million people died from TB including half a million deaths associated with HIV worldwide, said a 2009 WHO report.
We killed it
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2009
THERE are some pathogens that disguise
themselves and prevent detection by the
host's immune system. There are others
that save themselves by mimicking the
defence molecules produced by the
host's body. Then there is the tuberculosis
bacterium.
Regarded as the world's most successful
infectious agent, the bacterium
Mycobacterium tuberculosis kills 1.3 million
people every year. 30 per cent of the
world's population is infected with the
MICROBIOLOGY: drug discovery
We killed it
TB bacterium plays dead,
immune cells are fooled
PHYSIOLOGY: energy conservation
The way you swing
Universal Immunization Programme
To keep six contagious diseases at bay The programme's mandate is to enhance vaccine production in the country, among others. Started in 1978, it is now part of India's National Rural Health Mission and involves vaccination against six contagious diseases: tuberculosis, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio and measles. Tuberculosis: A bacterial disease; BCG vaccine administered at birth. The vaccine protects from meningitis and TB.The Gates accounts
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2009
Foundation's funding misses priorities, favours private sector
Foreign funding plays a crucial role in India's healthcare system. But, over the years, the public health fraternity has observed that the funding
does not make much difference in improving people's health. They say there is often a lapse in understanding the real problem at hand.
