TB research shows a good diet can cut infections by nearly 50%
The TB community has typically looked for biomedical solutions, or “silver bullets”, for a social pathology, and we are struggling to …
Nutritional supplementation improves TB treatment's outcome
Better nutrition can reduce new TB cases by 39-48%; adequate early weight gain with nutritional support can reduce risk of death in TB patients …
TB nutrition aid falls short
Hurdles in availing financial support under Nikshay Poshan Yojana will exacerbate India’s tuberculosis crisis
Not just those infected with HIV, India’s TB patients too don’t get proper nutrition
Only 62.1% of over 2.1 million notified cases in 2021 received at least one tranche of payment under the Nikshay Poshan Yojana
38 years on, AIDS now a successful public health story
The convergence of multiple factors have ensured that almost four decades since the epidemic broke in the US there are now several ways of …
NITI Aayog’s Health Index: Kerala on top; Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh among worst performers
However, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan are among the states that have shown progress in overall health outcomes
Scientists find new way to improve efficacy of TB treatment
The new add-on therapy consists of injecting ‘heat-killed’ bacteria into patients along with standard TB drugs
TB threat as acute as AIDS
Infectious diseases are still the largest cause of death in the world and tuberculosis remains the leader.
AIDS increases TB death risk
People infected with the AIDS virus are more susceptible to tuberculosis, and this further reduces their chances of survival.
Is institutional racism for real?
A recent review of editorial boards of ten leading international psychiatry journals has revealed almost nil representation from developing countries
MDR-TB cases in India increase more than five-fold in two years
Minister says better surveillance and detection is the reason
TB drugs stock-outs trigger protests
Paediatric drug buffer stocks to last one month; emergency drug procurement by July 15
Curbing TB still a challenge
As WHO bans blood test, scientists explore advanced diagnostic technologies
Weather imperfect
WHO launches ‘The Big Catch-Up’ to restore immunisation progress lost during pandemic
More than 100 countries registered a drop in immunisation levels during the COVID-19 pandemic
Scientific innovation in 2021: Lessons from COVID-19
One of the bigger learnings of 2020 was that it takes time, planning, trust and bringing together of resources as well as knowledge to manage a …
COVID-19: Sharp rise projected in HIV, TB, Malaria deaths due to overwhelmed systems
Deaths could be minimised if people not forced to stay away from hospitals
A human-rights approach is essential to end the global TB epidemic
it is critical to ensure that tuberculosis services are included within essential universal healthcare packages and social protection programmes
We are running out of antibiotics, says WHO
Report says antibiotics, which are almost in the pipeline as far as research goes, will fail to combat the growing threat of AMR
Undetected window
India cannot eradicate tuberculosis unless it treats the infection in cattle. The country accounts for 23 per cent of the global TB burden
WHO urges action against antibiotic resistance
Experts warn that without effective medicines, infections such as hospital-acquired ventilator-associated pneumonias, urinary tract infections …
Code of misconduct
The human genome may not solve all our problems. One of the most far-reaching consequences of the decoding is the ability to predict people's …
Foolproof tool to detect TB
the diagnosis of tuberculosis is likely to be faster and more reliable in the future with researchers from the uk-based University of Oxford …
COVID-19 added over $290 billion to the global cost of TB deaths: Study
South Asia incurred the highest losses due to TB deaths in 2020
TB bacteria use iron to survive
