Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched various initiatives including TB-free panchayats, implementing a shorter TB Preventive Treatment (TPT...

Once the drug controller approves the vaccine, the national technical advisory group on immunisation (NTAGI) will take a final call in its ...

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

The efficacy of BCG vaccination in newborns is well known and has a documented protective effect against meningitis and disseminated TB in ...

The EUA application was submitted on March 22 by Prakash Kumar Singh, Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs at the Serum Institute ...

Noting the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the minister said, "For more than two years, we have been facing the global pandemic ...

They ministers agreed to increase budgetary and human resource allocations including upfront investments required to catch-up on lost groun...

Both TB and COVID are infectious diseases that generally affect the lungs. Both are passed between people mainly by aerosols, when infected...

Experts have red-flagged serious setbacks to the fight against cancer and TB, both already grappling with dropouts due to traumatic side-ef...

The new vaccine, known as M72/AS01E, was tested at 11 sites in Kenya, South Africa and Zambia in adults whose blood tests showed they had l...

The PM wrote that the government was committed to eliminating TB by 2015, five years ahead of the Sustainable Development Goals deadline.

Bengaluru, July 31 (IANS) Medical scientists in the US have found yet another use for curcumin, the bioactive component of turmeric that is...

There were estimated 10.4 million new TB cases worldwide in 2015, the global health body said that six countries including India accounted ...

Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School estimated the number of childhood tuberculosis cases at 1 million ...

Scientists have discovered a "promising" new class of antibiotics that could treat drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis.

New drugs for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis that are expected to shorten the duration of treatment will be available in four to five ye...