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 …
A Central team deputed by the Union Health and Family Welfare arrived here to ascertain the “facts” about the reports suggesting that 12 patients were “diagnosed” with Totally Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (TDR-TB) in Hinduja hospital. A day after it arrived in the city from the capital on Monday, the Central …
The civic administration on Monday decided upon a three-pronged strategy to deal with Total Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (TDR-TB) reported by a city hospital, Manisha Mhaiskar, Additional Municipal Commissioner of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, told reporters here. Private practitioners will now have to refer all TB cases or those …
The detection of 12 cases of totally drug resistant (TDR) tuberculosis (TB) in Maharashtra has set the alarm bells ringing in the Union health ministry. Apart from rushing a three-member team of experts to Mumbai to look into these cases, the ministry has called for the detailed case histories of …
The emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the country has sparked off a major health alert with researchers in Mumbai warning that lack of cure could result in heavy casualties. Doctors at the Hinduja Hospital here have recorded 12 cases of Total Drug Resistant TB over the past three months. Ten …
This is as scary as it can get. The PD Hinduja hospital detected four people with total drug resistant (TDR) tuberculosis (TB), the first such cases in the country till November last year. In the last two months, eight others have been detected with TDR-TB. Of the 12 patients, a …
Almost three years after the first set of patients were diagnosed with Totally Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (TDR-TB) in Iran, researchers at the P D Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre here said today they have detected India’s first set of TDR-TB patients — 12 over the past two months. In …
LUCKNOW: Every second Indian undergoing treatment for tuberculosis comes from Uttar Pradesh. Considering that 17% of tuberculosis (TB) patients eventually become resistant to basic anti-TB treatment, the risk of multi drug resistant TB (MDR TB) looms large over the state. However, this was probably not enough to put health authorities …
NEW DELHI, 20 DEC: A World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendation to ban use of rapid test kits used to detect tuberculosis in developing countries notwithstanding, there is rampant use of this kit in India that gives “unacceptable levels of wrong results”. A recent study conducted by Indian Council of Medical …
Around 40 per cent people in Delhi are infected with tuberculosis (TB), said Mayor Rajni Abbi and called for spreading awareness about the disease. Abbi said that TB is a curable disease and there is a need to spread awareness among the patients that it is curable. She was speaking …
GMCH to set up new lab to test sputum for micro bacterium tuberculosis For the first time in the North-east, an intermediate reference laboratory is going to be set up at the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) for the culture and drug sensitivity test of sputum for micro bacterium …
Chicago: Over a million people worldwide diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) go on to develop an incurable but manageable fungal infection, which is usually left untreated because it is mistaken for a recurrence of the disease. In a new report published by the WHO on Friday, the researchers from University of …
Health activists have reacted strongly to the decision of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to cancel new grants to the three pandemics until 2014. The decision was taken at the 25 th Board of the Global Fund as a consequence of donor governments' failure to fulfil …
India might have to bear the burden of funding expensive treatments like second-line drugs for HIV patients and DOTS, plus for those suffering from multi-drug resistant TB. Global Fund, one of the biggest financers of India’s drive against the three killer diseases — AIDS, TB and malaria — has run …
The commonest test used to diagnose tuberculosis — an expensive blood test available in the form of a kit — could be one of the reasons for the rising drug resistance of the tuberculosis bacterium. The Central TB Control Division of the Health Ministry has written to the Drug Controller …
KUPWARA, Nov 18: The case detection rate of different types of tuberculosis (TB) has increased manifold over past 10 years in Kupwara district, witnessing as many as 30 deaths in the past years. Official sources reveal that in comparison to 430 patients suffering from different forms of TB in year …
New Delhi:Breathalyzers, hitherto used to test your breath for alcohol, will soon help detect tuberculosis, one of the most infectious airborne diseases. By 2013, Indian scientists plan to unveil an electronic nose — a hand-held battery-powered device — much like a personal breathalyzer, which is being developed to diagnose TB …
An accurate, simple, and direct test for tuberculosis (TB) has been a priority for many years, but to date no such test has become available. Easily detectable sensitive and specific biomarkers are elusive and may remain so. In parallel to the essential extensive efforts in biomarker discovery performed in this …
A global initiative to develop new tuberculosis vaccines to supplement the now 90-year-old Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), commonly administered to infants as part of vaccination protocols, will feature India as one of the sites for trials. The first TB vaccine trials in India in over four decades, funded by the global …
Russia plans to step up its international role in fighting infectious disease across eastern Europe and central Asia, in what some observers see as the latest effort by the Kremlin to reassert its political influence over its former Soviet neighbours. The move offers prospects for extra funding to tackle HIV …
GUWAHATI: The prevalence of tobacco use in any form is highest in the Northeast. Mizoram has the highest prevalence of tobacco use, around 67.2 per cent. Ironically, Mizoram also has the highest literacy rate in the country. In Assam tobacco use is 39 per cent which is a little higher …
