BRICS leaders agreed to strengthen health cooperation and share best practices. They endorsed initiatives focusing on tuberculosis and digi...

India hosted the 16th BRICS Health Ministers' Meeting in Chandigarh. The meeting established a network for mental wellness research and col...

Serum Institute will manufacture an experimental tuberculosis vaccine. This novel vaccine candidate is currently in late-stage clinical tri...

Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are developing a next-generation vaccine to combat tuberculosis (TB), one of the ...

Australian researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine for tuberculosis, showing effective results in mice. The vaccine enhances immunity...

The only vaccine in use today--BCG (Bacillus Calmette and Guerin)--is an attenuated variant of the bovine TB pathogen. This is more than a ...

Tuberculosis caused 1.6 million deaths globally in 2021, making it the world's leading cause of death from infectious disease, before COVID...

According to the India TB Report 2022, the number of 'incident TB patients' (new and relapse cases) notified during 2021 stood at 19.3 lakh...

Once the drug controller approves the vaccine, the national technical advisory group on immunisation (NTAGI) will take a final call in its ...

Here are five things to know about an infection that has scourged the world for tens of thousands of years.

The new TB vaccine, 'MTBVAC', is being manufactured and developed by Biofabri, in close collaboration with the University of Zaragoza, IAVI...

Fears of a wider public health crisis are growing as people flee their homes, health services are interrupted and supplies fail to reach Uk...

Both TB and COVID are infectious diseases that generally affect the lungs. Both are passed between people mainly by aerosols, when infected...

The western societies which had led the smear campaign are those turning most fervently to the same labs for deliverance. Hope has taken th...

The 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...

ICMR is focused on research for better treatment strategies and diagnostics and is also working to speed up rapid diagnostics for TB, Swami...

An annual estimated mortality of 2, 70,000 deaths means that tuberculosis claims one life in India every two minutes.