All Strange Things About India and world
India accounted for nearly 29% of 10.6 million tuberculosis cases worldwide (File)New Delhi: The Indian Patent Office on Thursday rejected US pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson’s application to extend its…
Tuberculosis can be fatal if left untreated.An arrest warrant has been issued against a woman in Washington State who, for more than a year, repeatedly refused to isolate or get…
Tuberculosis is the second deadliest infectious disease after COVID-19. (File)Geneva: Tuberculosis is on the rise again globally for the first time in a decade, linked to disruptions in access to…
Vardhan made these remarks while virtually addressing the inaugural session of the two-day Public Health Conference by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). “This pandemic has given us a chance to…
LONDON : Scientists have compared volunteers who had received the BCG vaccine — originally made against tuberculosis — with those who did not, and have found that the immunised individuals…
CHENNAI : Sanction has been accorded to a trial by the Indian Council of Medical Research‘s Tuberculosis institute here to study the efficacy of BCG vaccine in the elderly in…
According to the modelling study, published in the journal The Lancet Global Health, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) could see HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria deaths increase by as much…
A century-old tuberculosis vaccine may play a role in reducing death due to Covid-19 infection, a preliminary study has suggested. Researchers from the US-based the National Institute of Allergy and…
JOHANNESBURG: Coronavirus lockdowns have hindered the fight against HIV infection in women and girls globally by limiting their access to education and protection from sexual violence, the United Nations warned…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has endorsed tests by three research bodies, including ICMR, for initial diagnosis of tuberculosis and detection of resistance to a drug most commonly used to…