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India known as nation with world's largest healthcare programme: PM ModiPrime Minister Narendra Modi said India has made healthcare more affordable and accessible over the past 12 years through initiatives such ...- Govt approves TB supplement ahead of pending trial results, experts raise concernsThe government has decided to introduce Energy Dense Nutritional Supplementation (EDNS) for 12 lakh underweight TB patients, opting for sac...
- No shortage of anti-TB drugs in India, asserts Health MinistryThe treatment regimen of multi drug resistant TB consists of usually four months of seven drugs (bedaquiline, levofloxacin, clofazimine, is...
- Clinical trials of new BCG vaccine for TB to start soon, says former CSIR chiefAccording to the India TB Report 2022, the number of 'incident TB patients' (new and relapse cases) notified during 2021 stood at 19.3 lakh...
- Nearly 60,000 TB cases recorded in Mumbai in 2021; marginal decline from pre-COVID daysOf the total TB patients, 3 per cent are drug sensitive and 14 per cent drug resistant in Mumbai. Annually, around 4,000 to 5,000 drug resi...
- Tata Trusts' IHF backs startup that built low cost test to determine drug resistant TBHealSeq is incubated at the India Institute of Science (IISc) innovation – Bangalore in March 2020. The start-up works on biomarker discove...
- Lupin, TB Alliance join hands for new therapy for drug-resistant tuberculosisTB Alliance President and CEO Mel Spigelman said that partnering with Lupin -- a well-established manufacturer with experience delivering h...
- Export of anti-tuberculosis medicines a worryThe health ministry has flagged the need for suspension of the export of anti-tuberculosis medicines, saying the coronavirus outbreak has i...
- Mumbai pharma company gets licence for breakthrough TB drugA global non-profit drug developer TB Alliance has tied up with domestic company Macleods Pharmaceuticals to develop and commercialise its ...
- States must invest in R&D to fund new drug discoveries: TB AllianceGeneric manufacturers are essential players in the fight to end TB so we do speak with generic manufacturers as part of our access strategy.
- Otsuka licenses Mylan subsidiary to bring MDR TB drug delamanid to IndiaMDR TB is on the rise in India which, together with China and Russia, accounts for over half of these cases worldwide, according to a recen...
- Aadhaar or not, TB patients to get free diagnosis, medicinesNotification by Health Ministry recently made Aadhaar compulsory for TB patients and health providers but for only those seeking cash incen...
- No. of India's TB patients may be double the estimate: StudyWhile it was assumed that India's annual TB cases stands at 2.2 million a year, the study pegs this number at over 3.8 million in 2014.
- WHO adds 36 new drugs to list of essential medicinesThe move opens the way to improve access to innovative medicines that show clear clinical benefits and could have enormous public health im...
- Mumbai’s Sewri TB Hospital faces drug shortage; Government in denial“The stock-out has been on for three months now. We are extremely worried about the patients,” a doctor working at the hospital said.
- Government mulling ban on sale of TB drugs in open marketSale of TB drugs could be prohibited in open market as part of efforts to ensure calibrated and monitored administration of these medicines.
- Government to provide free tuberculosis drugs at all chemist shops and corporate hospitalsA patient, confirmed positive for TB by a qualified doctor, simply needs to register with the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program.
- Govt proposes free supply of essential drugsTo make health care more affordable, the government proposes to launch an initiative for free supply of essential medicines in public healt...
- Arunachal launches DOTS plus for TB patientsArunachal Pradesh has taken a lead in the entire North-East with the launching of first-of-its-kind DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment) plus...
- World Health Organisation signs joint statement with International Pharmaceutical Federation to curb tuberculosisThe joint statement was signed at the 71st World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences 2011, inaugurated by President Pratibha P...
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