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India is facing a data obesity epidemic—as storage in phones fails to keep up with people’s voracious appetite for visualsIndia’s growing use of smartphones, AI tools and social media is driving a surge in demand for digital storage, with experts warning of a “...- Redmi A7 Pro 5G price in India: Check features, highlights and what the smartphone offers under Rs 12,000Redmi A7 Pro 5G: Xiaomi introduces the Redmi A7 Pro 5G in India, priced from ₹11,499. This new budget smartphone boasts a smooth 120Hz disp...
- India's TB fight gets a boost: New Made-in-India diagnostic tests cut cost & timeIndia's ICMR has validated two new indigenous TB diagnostic tools from Huwel Lifesciences. The Quantiplus MTB FAST kit offers cheaper, open...
- World TB Day: Tuberculosis fight gets stronger with doubled cure rates and controlled infection spreadWorld TB Day 2025 (Google Trends): Mumbai's efforts to combat multi-drug-resistant TB are showing promising results, with cure rates doubli...
- 100-Day TB Elimination Campaign: How ASHA workers fighting to rid tuberculosis of social stigmaASHA workers like Ranjana Chaudhary are tackling social stigma about tuberculosis in India's rural regions through the 100-Day Intensified ...
- Kansas faces largest documented tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history, health officials confirmKansas is experiencing the biggest TB outbreak in American history. So far, KDHE confirmed 67 active and 79 latent cases in the state.
- 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...
- TB testing technology developed by ICMR's regional centre allows tests at Rs 35ICMR has introduced a new CRISPR-based technology for detecting tuberculosis at a low cost. Capable of testing 1,500 samples in a short per...
- TB treatment is free. But are patients facing crippling costs?Government policy is to provide free diagnosis and treatment to all registered TB cases. Yet patients pay ‘out-of-pocket’ for several other...
- Extent of TB's hold on India revealed by new data; here are key things to know about the diseaseNearly 25 people were diagnosed with tuberculosis every hour in Maharashtra, reports based on the data shows. As of now, Uttar Pradesh has ...
- TB in children can be accurately diagnosed with simple, rapid blood test, says studyThe test, based on the activity of three specific genes, can be conducted using capillary blood from a fingertip, providing results in just...
- Danaher cuts TB diagnosis test cartridge by 20% for high-burden countriesDanaher Corporation announced that it will reduce the price of its Cepheid's Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra diagnostic test cartridges for tuberculosi...
- Centre waives testing requirement for SII's Cy-Tb injection at govt labs: SourcesThe 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 ...
- India develops own model for estimating TB cases in countryIndia has become the first country in the world to have developed a country-level mathematical model to estimate the prevalence of TB cases...
- ICMR's top research institute developing sputum-free tests for diagnosing TBTuberculosis is diagnosed by detecting the bacteria in the sputum. But in blood-based biomarker discovery scientists are looking at how the...
- 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...
- TB detection, treatment suffer amid lockdownThis is despite the Union health ministry sending a directive to states to not stop TB elimination programme in the country, warning that p...
- Don't wait for the symptoms, new blood test can predict onset of TB six months in advanceThis test can help treat the disease better, and save countless lives.
- Quick evaluation key to fighting TB in India: StudyApproximately 8.6 million people worldwide develop active TB each year. Twenty-five per cent of all diagnosed TB patients are in India.
- UK visa: Tuberculosis screening for Indians soonFrom Thursday onwards, Indian citizens seeking to enter Britain for more than six months will need to be screened for tuberculosis.
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