This document presents the findings of a modelling study that examined in detail the costs and benefits of tuberculosis (TB) screening plus TB preventive treatment (TPT) in four countries – Brazil, Georgia, Kenya and South Africa – which may serve as examples for other settings with a similar epidemiological context. …
New data published by WHO in its 2016 "Global Tuberculosis Report" show that countries need to move much faster to prevent, detect, and treat the disease if they are to meet global targets. Governments have agreed on targets to end the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic both at the World Health Assembly …
India has recorded the highest number of deaths of children under the age of five in 2015, according to a latest Lancet study which also said that the country performed poorly in terms of tuberculosis and maternal survival. India has recorded the highest number of deaths of children under the …
Meerut: A team from the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) landed in Meerut on Tuesday morning to launch an intensive study of pollution levels here. Equipped with cutting-edge equipment, the team’s primary aim is to analyse the impact of movement of ‘discarded’ vehicles from Delhi to the region. Research …
A global fund has raised over $12.9 billion from international donors as part of a campaign aimed at effectively eradicating AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis by 2030, conference organizers said on Saturday. The Global Fund asked government, faith-based and private-sector partners to raise a total of $13 billion at a donor …
The scientists warned that under-reporting of cases could be fuelling drug resistance — and have implications for patients across the globe. An assessment of nationwide sales of anti-tuberculosis drugs across the private sector suggests there were 2.2 million TB cases in India in 2014 — two to three times higher …
In developing nations, the current test to diagnose tuberculosis (TB) is error-prone, complicated and time-consuming. Furthermore, patients in these resource-limited areas can't easily travel back to a clinic at a later date to get their results. To make diagnoses simpler, faster and more accurate, chemists have developed a quick and …
A state-of the art health services bus would provide medical care to rural populace at their doorsteps. Designed through a donation of US$100,000 from philanthropists Raj and Bharati Shah of the US-based Capital Technology Information Services (CTIS), the mobile health and wellness clinic launched in Pune on Monday features advanced …
Aurangabad: The Aurangabad Municipal Corporation's (AMC) health department has made dengue a notifiable disease like tuberculosis (TB) and directed private doctors and hospitals to immediately notify health officials about patients with symptoms of dengue. According to Manisha Bhondwe, civic vector-borne disease controlling officer, the decision was taken at two review …
According to the report, every year, at least 6,688 people die due to tuberculosis and 1,18,093 suffer from diarrhoea. Dengue cases have gone up eight times and cholera cases seven times in the past five years, a white paper released by the Praja Foundation on Thursday revealed. It further shows …
Viral hepatitis is one of the leading killers across the globe, with a death toll that matches Aids or tuberculosis, research in the Lancet suggests. The report estimates that hepatitis infections and their complications led to 1.45m deaths in 2013 - despite the existence of vaccines and treatments. World Health …
In a major breakthrough, researchers of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, have identified a protein - Rv1860 - which can stimulate protective immunity against tuberculosis (TB). According to the research team, immune responses to this protein are distinctly different in healthy people when compared to TB patients. This …
Thiruvananthapuram: The state has decided to incorporate all the projects in the health sector under the United Nations sustainable development programme. Health minister K K Shylaja said that according to the sustainable development programme the third programme is the development of health sector. Since 2015 all the health policies of …
Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh: Farmer Bablu Chouhan is waging a daily battle to clear the constant barrage of fly ash, which is turning his 5-acre farmland in Dogalia village barren. Almost all his family members are ill. The fly ash is coming from two 500-hectare ponds, where the Shree Singaji Thermal …
Researchers at the Institute for Systems Biology and Center for Infectious Disease Research in Seattle have deciphered how the human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis is able to tolerate the recently approved FDA drug bedaquiline. The study demonstrated that silencing certain regulatory genes in the bacteria, or pairing with a second drug …
In a major boost to government-run urban healthcare facilities in the state, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will provide Rs 1,548 crore as part of the Japanese government's official development assistance. Medical college hospitals and district headquarters hospitals, including Kilpauk Medical College Hospital and Institute of Child Health in …
DABI, BUNDI DISTRICT: On the 55-km bus ride from Kota to Dabi, the desert spreads out right till the horizon. Such unhindered view of land meeting sky is rare for the city-bred. Along the route, one chances on mini-tornadoes , as the wind swirls up sand in the heat. One …
Two months after the Union health ministry launched a miracle drug for tuberculosis, Bedaquiline, with great pomp and show, the drug has not been put to use on a single patient. While the drug is available at the six sites shortlisted by the government, experts are waiting for the “ …
MUMBAI: The World Health Organization has recommended countries move toward shorter treatment regimens for certain people with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), including those co-infected with HIV, children, and people with simple MDR-TB who have not been treated before, or have no known resistance to any of the drugs in the regimen. …
Ahmedabad: Respiratory disease cases in Gujarat have been skyrocketing over the past few years. A recent report from the Union health ministry has shockingly revealed that in Gujarat, between 2013 and 2015, the number of patients of respiratory diseases grew by more than a lakh each year. While there were …
No mechanism in place to see that patients complete the treatment A recent study on the volume and pattern of sale of anti-tuberculosis drugs in the open market in the State has shown that there are as many cases of tuberculosis (TB) being treated in the State’s private sector as …
