A modelling group convened by the World Health Organization and UNAIDS has estimated that if efforts are not made to mitigate and overcome interruptions in health services and supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic, a six-month disruption of antiretroviral therapy could lead to more than 500 000 extra deaths from AIDS-related …
MUMBAI: Eleven resident doctors of Sion Hospital are currently suffering from tuberculosis. And two of them are suffering from the multi-drug resistant strain of the disease. Doctors and paramedical staff are worried as new cases of TB among the caregivers have been coming to light in the last few months. …
MPs have voted against the government's policy of culling badgers in two pilot schemes in England. It follows a highly-charged debate led by backbenchers in the Commons. Ministers want to hold a pilot badger cull in two areas of the south west next year because badgers spread tuberculosis to cattle. …
New Delhi: India is home to the highest number of tuberculosis patients who have become resistant to the most effective drugs available. In a shocking disclosure, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday said that while India was home to 73,000 patients with multi-drug resistant TB (MDR TB), the Union …
England’s West Country is a bucolic landscape of winding country lanes and gently rolling pastures. But as autumn darkens into winter, a war, complete with armed marksmen and camouflaged saboteurs, is about to erupt from the hedgerows. Both sides claim science as their ally. At issue is the badger (Meles …
India, China, Russian Federation and South Africa have almost 60% of the world's cases of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis reveals this 17th WHO report on tuberculosis that provides a comprehensive assessment of the TB epidemic & its prevention with data from 204 countries. This is the seventeenth global report on tuberculosis (TB) …
Open source drug discovery offers potential for developing new and inexpensive drugs to combat diseases that disproportionally affect the poor. The concept borrows two principle aspects from open source computing (i.e., collaboration and open access) and applies them to pharmaceutical innovation. By opening a project to external contributors, its research …
The first licence allowing farmers to shoot badgers in an attempt to reduce cattle TB is to be issued on Monday. The licensing body, Natural England, said the cull would go ahead in Gloucestershire, where cases are high. Ministers are pressing ahead with plans to cull badgers in two areas …
The national strategic plan for TB control for 2012-17 developed by the Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has raised the bar for tackling the fast- growing TB epidemic in the country. The main goal of the strategic plan is to provide universal access to early diagnosis and effective …
Badgers could be shot across England within weeks, barring a last minute legal challenge. Natural England is preparing to issue licenses that will allow farmers to shoot badgers at night in parts of Gloucestershire and Somerset. The government says action is needed to help combat cattle TB, which costs the …
The fifth Joint Monitoring Mission (JMM) of India and the World Health Organisation (WHO) on the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) has endorsed the National Strategic Plan (NSP) for TB control for 2012-17. The JMM lauded the Government’s efforts in TB control but cautioned that successful implementation of the …
New Delhi: Over-the-counter sale of around 92 antibiotic and anti-tuberculosis drugs in India will be restricted soon. Drug Controller General of India G N Singh has written to the Union health minister to notify a new schedule, H1, in the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules. Once notified, following clearance from the …
New study reveals alarming levels in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America that are resistant to four powerful antibiotics Prevalence of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR- TB) is increasing due to expanded use of second-line drugs in people suffering from multidrug-resistant (MDR) diseases, reveals a new study. This large, prospective study …
Despite expansion of private and public healthcare services in the city, the number of maternal deaths seem to be on the rise. As per data collated by the civic body’s public health department, the number of maternal deaths have jumped 13 per cent to 239 in 2011 from 211 in …
A mysterious new disease has left a number of people in Asia and some in the US with AIDS-like symptoms even though they are not infected with HIV. The disease affects the immune system of the patient and damages it, leaving him incapable to repulse germs as healthy people can. …
In the wake of references being made to investigate the health issues of mine workers, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) proposes to establish a statutory authority. Cancer, tuberculosis, silicosis, diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders and pulmonary function impairment such as asthma affect mine workers. The proposed authority will coordinate with …
If the results of a field trial started by the Health Ministry are favourable, doctors will no longer need to wait for months before starting a patient on a regimen for drug-resistant TB, thus losing valuable time in a critical case. The ministry has initiated field trials for a nucleic …
The high court will rule on Thursday on whether farmers and landowners can legally cull thousands of badgers to tackle tuberculosis in cattle. The Badger Trust says government proposals for two pilot culls are "very, very controversial" and should be stopped. The trust is asking Mr Justice Ouseley to quash …
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government said Monday 78 patients and staff at an elderly care center had contracted tuberculosis (TB), including three people who died, a report said. In February, two in-patients at the dementia care wing of Tokyo Oume Hospital were diagnosed with TB, Jiji Press said. A follow-up study …
Six months after reports came in of ‘totally drug resistant tuberculosis (TDR TB)’ from Mumbai, a “salvage regimen” for the disease has found positive response among several victims. The news of the drug-resistant TB had alarmed experts, including the World Health Organisation (WHO), and this new treatment could demolish apprehensions …
A global study mapping human diseases that come from animals like tuberculosis, AIDS, bird flu or Rift Valley fever has found that just 13 such diseases are responsible for 2.4 billion cases of human illness and 2.2 million deaths a year. The vast majority of infections and deaths from so-called …
