India second most targeted nation in terms of cyber attacks: CloudSEKThe major breaches as per the report comprised 850 million records of Indian citizen data leaked from Hi-Tek Group, Star Health and Allied ...
NASA Alerts: Asteroid five times the height of Taj Mahal set for close encounter, several more to follow!NASA is set to monitor several asteroids, including 2024 TB2, 2007 UT3, and the larger 2020 WG, as they pass safely by Earth from October 2...
“Digital Health will be a Key Priority in India’s G20 Presidency”Look at what happened to Keshubhai Patel? He formed his own party and got just two seats. People of Gujarat do not like parties that are he...
Driving innovation: Global fund fosters partnership between India & UK to combat health challengesThe Global Fund was created in 2002. With public donors including the USA, UK, and private donors such as the Gates Foundation, it has used...
World running out of antibiotics: WHOPharmaceutical companies and researchers must urgently focus on new antibiotics against certain types of extremely serious infections, said...
WHO gears up to help India eliminate tuberculosis by 2025World Health Organisation has called on countries in South- East Asia Region to build on recent momentum aimed at ending TB by 2030.
TB threat during Haj: Hygiene & surveillance can prevent spreadAccording to the IJID study, the holy cities of Mecca and Medina have TB incidence four times more than the national average of Saudi Arabi...
Government launches new medicine to treat drug resistant TBAhead of World Tuberculosis Day on March 24, government today launched Bedaquiline, a new class of anti-tuberculosis medicine discovered to...
Anti-diabetic drug may help treat tuberculosis: StudyEven though drugs are available to treat the disease, TB continues to be a major threat to public health, killing close to 1.5 million peop...
Decontrolling prices of cardiac, diabetes drugs challenged in SCUnder Drug Price Control Order 2013, the government already controls the prices of 348 drugs listed in the National List of Essential Medic...
New class of antibiotics can treat drug-resistant tuberculosisScientists have discovered a "promising" new class of antibiotics that could treat drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis.
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.
Sunday ET: Why tuberculosis is India's biggest public health problemIndia is home to 2.2 million tuberculosis patients, making it the largest number in a single country.
- World TB day: Need to raise public spend on clinical trials & find innovative ways to incentivise R&D
March 24 is World TB day. It commemorates the discovery of Tuberculosis (TB) bacillus in 1883 by Dr Robert Koch as the cause of tuberculosi...
- TB drops globally, wreaks havoc in India
The number of people who fell ill with tuberculosis globally dropped to 8.8 million in 2010, the disease still wreaked havoc in India
- Asia faces trillion dollar TB-fighting bill
Eleven Asian nations, including India, faces the biggest threat from tuberculosis risk being saddled with a whopping trillion dollar econom...
- New drug-resistant TB strain poses threat to India
India has a major health challenge on its hands, figuring second on the list of countries with the largest concentration of people sufferin...