KARACHI: About one third of the world’s population is infected with tuberculosis (TB) bacteria. Only a small proportion of those infected will become sick with TB.
GENEVA — United Nations member states agreed Monday to a plan to tackle resistance to antibiotic drugs, spurred by warnings of a catastrophe for public health and heavy economic losses if they did
Worried that his eyes and urine were turning a deep yellow, Gednezar Dladla made his way to a local clinic and was referred to a district hospital, where he was x-rayed, diagnosed with gallstones,
India has met only four of ten health targets under the Millenium Development Goals (MDG), and has made next to no progress on another four, according to new data from the World Health Organisation
A workshop organised by the Pharmacy Department of the Shri Guru Ram Rai Institute of Technology and Science (SGRRITS) in Dehradun has stressed on the sensitisation of society towards tuberculosis
Mexico’s public-health system has suspended infant vaccines and mounted an investigation after two babies died and 29 were sickened in an impoverished community in southern Mexico.
AFRICAN countries are the most affected by the growing global drug resistance to malaria and tuberculosis (TB), a situation, which is compounded by incomplete data due to lack of information and po
Even as union health minister J P Nadda launched a nationwide TB Free India campaign in Delhi on Thursday, a survey conducted by a city NGO indicated that 47% of those surveyed in a Kurla East loca
