A global non-profit drug developer TB Alliance has tied up with domestic company Macleods Pharmaceuticals to develop and commercialise its ...

Generic manufacturers are essential players in the fight to end TB so we do speak with generic manufacturers as part of our access strategy.

Life-saving drug bedaquiline by US pharma company Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is now being offered at $400 per patient —over 50% cheaper than t...

"High rates of treatment failure and deaths are associated with fluoroquinolone resistance in the Indian cohort of MDR-TB patients," stated...

New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) As India continues to have 24 per cent of the world's total Tuberculosis (TB) burden, the Indian Society for Cli...

LRS was responding to an affidavit asking whether the govt could provide the bedaquiline directly to the treating doctor instead of the pat...

The TB bacterium is cunning and is able to survive according to the researchers due to its ability to sense and adapt to its host's environ...

Four of the six drugs given to patients with MDR-TB under the RNTCP could be ineffective in nearly 70% of patients, a study by Mumbai's Hin...

Ahead of World Tuberculosis Day on March 24, government today launched Bedaquiline, a new class of anti-tuberculosis medicine discovered to...

The city recorded its worst outbreak of dengue in 2014, affecting thousands and killing 12. Mumbai also records the country's highest numbe...

Here's why drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) breeds freely in Mumbai: Patients don't get appropriate medication.

Multi-drug resistant TB is rapidly spreading with 450,000-odd new cases reported in 2012 by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Vardhan said that an email repository will be built up for establishing connectivity between govt & all doctors in the country to help figh...

India accounts for nearly one-fourth of global incidence of TB and public health officials here are working on finding a cure for drug-resi...

The drug combination, known as PaMZ, killed more bacteria than standard treatment and was effective in treating drug-resistant tuberculosis.

India is home to 2.2 million tuberculosis patients, making it the largest number in a single country.

India has a major health challenge on its hands, figuring second on the list of countries with the largest concentration of people sufferin...