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Study highlights 'catastrophic costs' incurred by tuberculosis patients worldwideDespite many countries offering free treatment, tuberculosis patients still face significant costs. Hospitalisation and income loss are maj...
AI firm Fractal has built India's first medical LLM Vaidya. aiAI firm Fractal's Vaidya, fine-tuned using open-source base models which are 30-70 billion parameters in size and trained on 650k+ images a...
New AI model predicts personalised TB treatments, study showsA new artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by scientists has the potential to revolutionise tuberculosis (TB) treatment by predicti...
38 per cent of Indians suffer from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: ReportThe cause of 'fatty liver' or 'steatohepatitis' is the recent westernisation of our diets which involves increased intake of fast food, lac...
38% of Indians have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, says AIIMS studyThe phenomenon is not restricted to adults, but affects nearly 35 per cent of the children as well, says the study published in the Journal...
Lupin recalls over 16k bottles of generic tuberculosis drug in USAs per the latest Enforcement Report by the US health regulator, Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc, a US-based arm of the Mumbai-based drug major, ...
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...
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.
India is sitting on a healthcare time bomb, and no, it is not the coronavirusMore than a million children have missed crucial immunizations and hospital births have shown a sharp decline, indicating many women may ha...
WHO announces important changes to multi drug resistant TB treatmentIn its last-issued guidance in October 2016, the WHO had restricted usage to the breakthrough drug owing to concerns around its effect on t...
World TB Day: Over 25% TB patients in India are resistant to at least one anti-TB drug"High rates of treatment failure and deaths are associated with fluoroquinolone resistance in the Indian cohort of MDR-TB patients," stated...
Hospital denies new TB drug to dying patient citing fear of drug resistanceLRS was responding to an affidavit asking whether the govt could provide the bedaquiline directly to the treating doctor instead of the pat...
New medicine for Hepatitis C treatment launchedDuring the conference, two new drugs were launched for treatment of Hepatitis C disease at affordable price.
WHO cautions against indiscriminate use of antibioticsWHO has cautioned that the current practice of indiscriminate use of antibiotics is increasingly leading to resistance to medicines.
Tuberculosis rate going down, but not fast enough to meet WHO target"Community support groups/NGOs can be effectively used to create awareness and both WHO and government of India should pursue these collabo...
- 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...
- 1/3rd pvt sector TB drugs outside treatment recommendations: Study
At least one-third of all private sector dosages of first line TB drugs across the 10 high TB burdened countries fall outside treatment rec...