2023 in a blink: Five of best books DTE reviewed and excerpted

Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2023

A heavy burden

In 2016, over 95 per cent of TB deaths happened in low- and middle-income countries

TB diagnosis in two days

Quick diagnosis of active tuberculosis can check indiscriminate use of TB drugs

Peppered cure

Global health threat

Wake-up call: Book review

A Death Every Minute by Raman Kakar

A disease on the rise

Asthma is extremely low in India's healthcare policy framework, especially for the poor

Team work

Diagnosis in two hours

A rapid test for pulmonary tuberculosis makes detection more efficient

Now drug-resistant genes can be identified in less than half the time

A researcher in California talks about FLASH, her new gene-based technology that can help doctors tackle antibiotic resistance better

HIV, TB, malaria prevalence will reduce with fewer inequalities in healthcare: WHO

A recent WHO report takes a look at 32 health indicators from 186 countries on HIV, TB and malaria, that kill 2 million annually  

Easy, affordable devices: Meet game changers of India's health sector

Medical diagnostics in India is set to witness a boom time as a wide array of easy-to-use and affordable devices are ready for roll-out

Funds for research on neglected diseases lowest in 2015

Over 1 billion people in 149 countries worldwide suffer from one or more neglected diseases

Quicker detection of TB and hepatitis

Two new tests allow a faster and more accurate detection of tuberculosis and hepatitis B than possible earlier

India leads list of nations where TB cases go unreported: WHO

Global Tuberculosis Report says 900,000 cases in India are either not diagnosed or not reported to health authorities

As told to Parliament (December 17, 2022): Over 10,000 cases of measles reported through December 12, says minister

 Maharashtra contributed the maximum to the burden, with 3,075 and 13 deaths

India’s progress in health outcomes dismal: UN report

The under-five mortality rate in the country still stands at 43 per 1,000 live births

Herb to the rescue

Everybody coughs in Kumaon

... but the government has done nothing to monitor the prevalence of tuberculosis in the area.

Genetically branded

TB bacterium unravelled

CURE FOR TB

FIGHTING TB

A simple device

But the invention of the stethoscope revolutionised medical diagnosis

Its TB, said the giant rat