India's ICMR has validated two new indigenous TB diagnostic tools from Huwel Lifesciences. The Quantiplus MTB FAST kit offers cheaper, open...

World TB Day 2025 (Google Trends): Mumbai's efforts to combat multi-drug-resistant TB are showing promising results, with cure rates doubli...

ICMR has introduced a new CRISPR-based technology for detecting tuberculosis at a low cost. Capable of testing 1,500 samples in a short per...

Trained on about 300 million pieces of audio data, and in particular roughly 100 million cough sounds, HeAR is expected to help the Indian ...

The DCGI had approved market authorisation of Cy-Tb injection on May 9, 2022, but even after a year of approval, Cy-Tb is not available in ...

Tuberculosis is diagnosed by detecting the bacteria in the sputum. But in blood-based biomarker discovery scientists are looking at how the...

According to official sources, the ministry has not taken any decision on procurement of this product as there are few programmatic challen...

HealSeq is incubated at the India Institute of Science (IISc) innovation – Bangalore in March 2020. The start-up works on biomarker discove...

“If masks become routine in India, just like they are in Japan, then we could well meet our target of eliminating TB by 2025,” said pulmono...

This is despite the Union health ministry sending a directive to states to not stop TB elimination programme in the country, warning that p...

One-third of the world's population is thought to be infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.

The megastar said as he joined US Ambassador to India Richard R Verma, civil society and health workers for a reception ahead of World Tube...

Oral swab samples may prove to be a "game-changer" for tuberculosis control as they can help diagnose the disease easily and inexpensively,...

The number of missed cases is defined as the difference between the estimated number of incident cases and notified (new and relapse) cases...

The WHO reckons India needs to improve diagnosis and treatment of patients to shrug off the lethal distinction of being the world's TB capi...

The number of people who fell ill with tuberculosis globally dropped to 8.8 million in 2010, the disease still wreaked havoc in India

Over six lakh Indians, unaware that they suffer from tuberculosis, are spreading the disease among healthy individuals, seriously jeopardiz...