Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
The tuberculosis vaccine bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) has heterologous beneficial effects against non-related infections. The basis of these effects has been poorly explored in humans. In a randomized placebo-controlled human challenge study, we found that BCG vaccination induced genome-wide epigenetic reprograming of monocytes and protected against experimental infection with an attenuated …
Two elderly individuals from Hitech City reported with H1N1 infection After a lull of over a month, swine flu virus has reared its head again, infecting two elderly individuals from the city. Public health officials portend more infections that may continue well into summer. A 65-year-old and a 69-year-old, unrelated …
Bareilly: The health department found 86 new cases of tuberculosis (TB) in Bareilly as part of a door-to-door drive, conducted in the district from December 26 to January 6, to detect hidden cases of the disease. The campaign, which means to root out the disease from India, examined 4,94,195 persons …
Meerut: With the second phase of the door-to-door drive against Tuberculosis, 96 more cases of the disease were discovered in the urban slums of Meerut (there were 80 confirmed cases in the first phase). In the 10-day-long campaign, conducted from December 26, 2017 to January 5, 2018 in 25 districts …
GURUGRAM: As the city witnessed the coldest day of the season so far on Thursday, the health department issued an advisory for Swine Flu. The advisory instructs all hospitals to take immediate action when a patient is suspected of being infected with Swine Flu. While, the patients have been advised …
The study conducted on mice and on tissue cultures suggest that giving Vitamin C -- a powerful antioxidant that reduces oxidative stress to the body and also lowers cancer risk -- with TB drugs could reduce the unusually long time it takes these drugs to eradicate this pathogen. For people …
JAIPUR: With state reported 3,619 cases of swine flu and 279 deaths in 2017, the health department conducted a video conferencing with officials in all the districts to remain alert on Wednesday. The department has sounded a red alert to prevent deaths due to the desease. The government has taken …
Pvt hospitals asked not to charge over Rs 2,200 for ventilators The Health Department is all set to deal with swine flu cases in the district. The possibility of such cases increases in winter. The Health Department today issued guidelines to private hospitals that they would not be allowed to …
Lal Chand (85) from Burj Hanuman Garh village, Fazilka, was admitted to the tuberculosis unit of the Civil Hospital on December 26, 2017, and had been undergoing treatment there since then. The octogenarian’s condition is deteriorating with each passing day. His treatment or sternly put his life now hinges on …
LUCKNOW: In a joint research, scientists of biotechnology department of APJ Kalam Technical University and Jazan University, Saudi Arabia, have identified the gene which increases the risk of tuberculosis, its recurrence and development of drug resistance. In a research lasting over four years, scientists studied more than 2,000 international researches …
Thiruvananthapuram: A state-wide tuberculosis (TB) eradication programme will be inaugurated by health and social justice minister K K Shailaja on Wednesday. The programme aims at visiting households and collecting data on Tuberculosis-affected individuals, as a prelude to World Tuberculosis Day, which will be observed on March 24. The plan is …
MUMBAI: A total 777 people succumbed to swine flu in Maharashtra in 2017, of which nearly 20 deaths were reported from the city. Nearly 1,000 people had tested positive for the viral infection last year from the city. Going by this analysis, the H1N1 virus hit the state harder in …
Jaipur: September and August remained the worst months for the people of the state in 2017 in terms of outbreak of swine flu. In these two months, 2,374 persons were tested positive while 149 had died. According to health department reports, 65.59% of swine flu cases in 2017 were reported …
At least 3 000 cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are recorded in Murewa annually with the Muslim community among those highly affected, a National Aids Council (NAC) research report shows. The research, which sought to establish the factors associated with high STIs in the district compared to other surrounding …
Pharmacists in thirty districts across the country have been introduced to new TB medicines expected to improve the management and treatment of patients suffering from Tuberculosis. According to Floribert Biziyaremye, the in charge of Tuberculosis and other respiratory communicable diseases division at Rwanda Biomedical Centre, the target group is children …
Pune: A total 777 people succumbed to swine flu in Maharashtra in 2017, of which 148 deaths were reported from the city alone. Going by the analysis, the H1N1 virus hit the state harder in 2017 than the previous year (2016). Barring 2015 when the virus had claimed the maximum …
Jaipur: Swine flu claimed two more people, one each in Jaipur and Churu, on Thursday, taking the death toll in the state from the disease to 276 this year. Thirty more tested positive for the flu across Rajasthan on Thursday. The situation is turning grave as swine flu has taken …
Alternative therapeutics for infectious diseases is a top priority, but what infections should be the primary targets? At present there is a focus on therapies for severe infections, for which effective treatment is most needed, but these infections are hard to manage, and progress has been limited. Here, we explore …
Ludhiana: Health took a backseat for the Ludhianvis in 2017. Six major outbreaks had been reported this year. From a measles outbreak, four outbreaks of cholera, and one outbreak of Hepatitis E, the residents of Ludhiana made several trips to the hospital this year. The water samples collected from different …
Uganda and Kenya are among seven African countries carrying out large-scale clinical trials of a long-lasting injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in sexually active women. The trials, called HPTN 084 and sponsored by the US National Institutes of Health, will also be conducted in Botswana, Malawi, Swaziland, South Africa and Zimbabwe …
