Despite many countries offering free treatment, tuberculosis patients still face significant costs. Hospitalisation and income loss are maj...

Dectrocel Healthcare has developed a platform in which digital and analogue chest X-Ray images and pictures of children are uploaded and, i...

Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine, used to protect against tuberculosis, induces a broad innate immune-system response and has been sh...

The step was taken to address the problem of people's inability to access diagnostic services, thus failing to receive the correct treatmen...

An appeal was made to corporate houses to invest in the anti-TB cause as the disease is inextricably linked with poverty.

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

With more than 1,300 persons succumbing to cancer every day, it has become one of the major causes of death occurring in India, followed by...

Health MInister J.P. Nadda said that the vast majority of the population infected with the bacteria have "latent TB infection rather than T...

"Community support groups/NGOs can be effectively used to create awareness and both WHO and government of India should pursue these collabo...

Approximately 8.6 million people worldwide develop active TB each year. Twenty-five per cent of all diagnosed TB patients are in India.

Union health minister Harsh Vardhan is for levying increased taxes on tobacco and tobacco-related products to discourage its consumption.

Gene-Radar works by taking a drop of blood, saliva, or other bodily fluid and placing it on a nanochip that is then put into the device.

Bureaucrats who cannot procure tuberculosis drugs fast enough to prevent a stock-out want no expense spared when it comes to taking care of...

Providing universal HIV testing for India's billion-plus population every five years can save millions of lives.

Biovet has launched Asia's first Bio Safety Level-4 (BSL-4) manufacturing facility, specifically designed to enable product development and...

In a bid to strengthen its presence in India’s OTC pharmaceutical mkt, Mumbai-based Maneesh Pharmaceuticals has acquired Kopran’s brand Smy...

An ICRIER study reveals that absenteeism was mainly due to diseases like influenza and malaria, followed by lifestyle diseases like diabete...