The number of Ugandans living with tuberculosis (TB) has gone up by 60%, a new survey has found, indicating a worrying spread of the deadly bacterial infection.
The Union Health Ministry has released an ambitious National Health Policy to deal with problems that hinder affordable healthcare for citizens. DNA does a 'full-body check-up'.
GUWAHATI: “TB requires urgent attention and it is necessary to involve local governments, corporates and those personally affected by TB, for a meaningful contribution to this national cause,” said
Undergraduate medical students in Cape Town are at high risk of occupationally acquired TB, with an unmet need for comprehensive occupational health services and support.
Meerut: As many as 166 teams of doctors and health officers went from door-to-door, on Wednesday, collecting cough samples of residents in the first week of the nation-wide drive to wipe out tuberc
Residents of Dadu Majra colony demand that the dumping ground in the area be shifted citing respiratory ailments and skin allergies from heaps of garbage dumped daily at the landfill.
Mathabire, who works with Doctors Without Borders (MSF), won the HIV/TB research prize for her groundbreaking HIV/TB research on the use of a portable test for TB among severely ill HIV patients in