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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.29 Jan, 2025, 12.47 AM IST- Bharat Biotech starts clinical trials of TB jabThe only vaccine in use today--BCG (Bacillus Calmette and Guerin)--is an attenuated variant of the bovine TB pathogen. This is more than a ...25 Mar, 2024, 12.06 AM IST
- Bharat Biotech begins clinical trials of TB vaccine on adults in IndiaBharat Biotech International Ltd has initiated clinical trials for the Tuberculosis vaccine Mtbvac on adults in India. Developed by the Spa...24 Mar, 2024, 01.13 PM IST
- World TB Day: Once regarded as a death sentence, tuberculosis is mostly curable today; six red flags to watch out forMen, the elderly are more vulnerable to TB.24 Mar, 2023, 04.40 PM IST
- India in advanced stage to deliver on global plan for new TB vaccine by 2025: Mansukh MandaviyaTuberculosis caused 1.6 million deaths globally in 2021, making it the world's leading cause of death from infectious disease, before COVID...17 Jan, 2023, 10.36 PM IST
- Serum Institute seeks nod for adult TB vaccineOnce the drug controller approves the vaccine, the national technical advisory group on immunisation (NTAGI) will take a final call in its ...13 Dec, 2022, 12.48 AM IST
- NIRT plans study on whether booster BCG can help prevent tuberculosisThe efficacy of BCG vaccination in newborns is well known and has a documented protective effect against meningitis and disseminated TB in ...04 Jul, 2022, 07.59 PM IST
- Serum Institute seeks emergency use authorisation for its rBCG tuberculosis vaccineThe EUA application was submitted on March 22 by Prakash Kumar Singh, Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs at the Serum Institute ...27 Mar, 2022, 04.58 PM IST
- Five facts about tuberculosis, a 40,000-year-old infection that continues to plague thousands across the globeHere are five things to know about an infection that has scourged the world for tens of thousands of years.23 Mar, 2022, 06.15 PM IST
- As vaccines trickle into Africa, Zambia’s challenges highlight other obstaclesVaccine misinformation spreads on TikTok and WhatsApp, and in evangelical churches where pastors warn that the shot “contains the mark of t...12 Dec, 2021, 07.27 AM IST
- Tuberculosis, the forgotten pandemic relying on a 100-year-old vaccineBoth TB and COVID are infectious diseases that generally affect the lungs. Both are passed between people mainly by aerosols, when infected...09 Aug, 2021, 11.35 AM IST
- View: Covid should set the stage for India’s drive against more common and fatal diseasesThe emergence of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) TB strain is especially concerning, as it is resistant to the two most effective anti-TB drugs ...25 Jan, 2021, 11.16 PM IST
- View: The ‘Covid-19 vaccine’ buzz should silence the anti-vaccination lobbiesThe western societies which had led the smear campaign are those turning most fervently to the same labs for deliverance. Hope has taken th...12 Apr, 2020, 11.16 PM IST
- GSK's tuberculosis vaccine shows promising resultsThe 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...29 Oct, 2019, 01.40 PM IST
- 2016: A busy year for health ministryThe year also saw conduct of a single and uniform entrance examination for admissions to virtually all government and private medical colle...31 Dec, 2016, 02.02 PM IST
- Health ministry: A slew of programmes for kids in 2015Health Ministry agreed to bring into force larger pictorial warnings on tobacco products from next year as the issue remained in news for m...29 Dec, 2015, 11.32 AM IST
- Glaxo's bird flu drug to hit market next yearA bird flu vaccine for humans that uses only a very low dose of active ingredient has proved effective in clinical tests and could be mass ...27 Jul, 2006, 12.24 AM IST
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