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These large- and mid-cap stocks may give more than 25% return in 1 year, according to analystsFor the last few earnings seasons, the message has been: “Show me growth, I have the money.” Stocks with better-than-expected earnings saw ...
Haryana uses AI to speed up TB elimination: Senior officialHaryana is using three Artificial Intelligence tools to combat tuberculosis. These AI solutions help detect TB cases early, monitor patient...
Jumbo task: 400 pills a day for elephants with tuberculosis in PakistanIn Karachi, Pakistan, doctors and vets are battling tuberculosis in two elephants, Madhubala and Malika, by administering 400 pills daily h...
100-Day TB Elimination Campaign: How ASHA workers fighting to rid tuberculosis of social stigmaASHA workers like Ranjana Chaudhary are tackling social stigma about tuberculosis in India's rural regions through the 100-Day Intensified ...
Economic Survey: Adoption of AI in Indian healthcare sector faces several challengesThe National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence (2018), developed by NITI Aayog, outlined how AI could tackle issues of quality, accessib...
NPPA hauled up for hiking drug pricesIndia's parliamentary committee criticized the drug pricing regulator for approving a 50% price increase on 11 drug formulations in October...
World AIDS Day 2024: AIDS and HIV are often confused as the same disease. Debunking the popular mythWorld AIDS Day 2024: Thanks to advancements in treatment, HIV is no longer a death sentence. By adhering to antiretroviral therapy, people ...
Tata Trusts' IHF backs startup that built low cost test to determine drug resistant TBHealSeq is incubated at the India Institute of Science (IISc) innovation – Bangalore in March 2020. The start-up works on biomarker discove...
Diabetics who recovered from Covid may show signs of tuberculosisAcid-Fast Bacillus causes tuberculosis and other infections.
World Health Organisation publishes its first essential diagnostics listThe step was taken to address the problem of people's inability to access diagnostic services, thus failing to receive the correct treatmen...
PM asks CMs to address challenge of TB 'in a mission mode'The PM wrote that the government was committed to eliminating TB by 2015, five years ahead of the Sustainable Development Goals deadline.
Drug to treat MDRTB to be made available across the country: GovernmentUnion Health Minister J P Nadda, in a written reply, said that the states are being prepared to monitor the treatment of patients with Beda...
TB patients will not be denied treatment on basis of domicile: GovernmentIn December 2016, the father of an 18-year-old patient suffering from XDR TB took National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseas...
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...
Mumbai’s Sewri TB Hospital faces drug shortage; Government in denial“The stock-out has been on for three months now. We are extremely worried about the patients,” a doctor working at the hospital said.
Hospitals face HIV testing kits' shortageThe reason for the shortage is not a paucity of funds but delay by the NACO in placing tenders for procurement, experts said.
Government mulling ban on sale of TB drugs in open marketSale of TB drugs could be prohibited in open market as part of efforts to ensure calibrated and monitored administration of these medicines.
Government to provide free tuberculosis drugs at all chemist shops and corporate hospitalsA patient, confirmed positive for TB by a qualified doctor, simply needs to register with the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program.
Private hospitals will have to display treatment costsThe health ministry said it was working on a plan to make it mandatory for all private hospitals to declare and display the treatment costs.