A doomed future

...is what awaits over 80 million tuberculosis patients worldwide

TB tangle

Disease has varied strings, needs differents vaccines

Desperate writ petitions of dying patients

Cancer, TB patients are urging a reluctant government to use compulsory licences to make life-saving drugs accessible

New insights into TB bacteria mechanism that helps it evade immune system: Researchers

M.tb is equipped with several proteins which help the bacterium avoid and weaken host immune-responses

Scientists find a new way to fight TB

They discover a new DNA sequence that binds to the enzyme that helps the TB pathogen thrive 

108th Indian Science Congress: Research needed to ensure carbon capture tech is efficient, experts say

Directly Observed Short Course Therapy, vaccination can make India TB-free

Health in news on June 8

Here's a round-up of today's news reports and debates in health

TB terror

TWIN TROUBLES

SOUTH AFRICA

Disease on the prowl

INDIA

A better antidote?

TB faces threat

TB threat

Successful fighting

Merger plan

For AIDS, TB schemes

Out of focus

We killed it

India has the highest population with household exposure to pulmonary TB

At least 38 million people live in households across 20 high-burden countries, where at least one person has incident pulmonary TB 

How COVID-19 threatens to undo years of progress in TB control

For the first time since 2005, the number of deaths due to TB increased from one year to the next

When a drug giant ties up with a non-profit

J&J’s pact with Stop TB Partnership to supply generic versions of bedaquiline promises hope, but falls short in many ways 

Scientists figure out molecular mechanism behind latent TB

Kolkata researchers think protein molecule MPT63 secreted by TB bacteria might have a role in its release into body from granuloma 

The second coming

Claims of successful regimes go flying out of the window as malaria and TB, aided by fresh drug-resistant traits, play havoc across boundaries

TB drugs shortage: health activists to write to prime minister

Critical drugs for children and drug-resistant TB patients out of stock; may lead to increase in drug resistance cases