Pulmonary and heart diseases claimed 46,811 lives in Karnataka in 2014, the latest year for which statistics on various causes of deaths in the country have been compiled by the Medical Certificati

Polio-like campaign to address TB burden from Jan 16

Tirupati: A team of researchers from Israel is now working on finding a genetic solution to the ever-increasing menace of antibiotic resistance to a plethora of diseases including tuberculosis (TB)

Sixty health officials from northern Kerala have undergone a two-day training in the ‘daily drug regime’ organised by the State Tuberculosis Cell in the city.

Clinical research in India may soon get a much-needed boost.

The prevalence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is unexpectedly high in eight West African countries, research by the West African Network of Excellence for TB, AIDS and Malaria (WANETA

The government will launch a 15-day campaign to trace tuberculosis cases on the lines of its polio drive, a top official announced at the launch of the India TB Research and Development Corporation

MUMBAI: A close-up of India's tuberculosis epidemic shows, for the first time, how a million of the now 2.8 million TB patients go 'missing' or never show up in the Revised National TB Control Prog

Tuberculosis epidemic in India is "larger" than what was previously estimated, the World Health Organisation (WHO) today said while asserting that the country was one of six nations which accounted

The revised estimates put the incidence of TB in India at 217 per 1,00,000 population in 2015 as against the previously estimated 127 per 1,00,000.