PUNE: The government has decided to rope in private chemists to strengthen its reporting system for tuberculosis (TB) cases.

Durban - Bringing home a healthy baby should be a joyous occasion, but recently it has become stressful for mothers who have left hospital without their newborns getting the all-important Bacillus

The Hindu and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism unravel how the use of a last-hope antibiotic like colistin is leading to worldwide drug resistance

KOLKATA: The persistent early morning fog — innocuous though it may seem — has left a trail of illnesses in Kolkata, including a drug-resistant cough that has been affecting children.

Nagpur: In the wake of the high-grade fever and cough affecting a very large number of children in the city, senior paediatrician Dr Satish Deopujari has given a call to every counterpart not to pr

The National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development, NIPRD, has successfully researched and developed six traditional herbal products for the treatment of Ebola, malaria and other di

THE National Biosafety Authority (NBA) has approved two applications for HIV vaccine trials and malaria control sought by the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) and Macha Rese

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 cou

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.