China has more than halved its tuberculosis (TB) prevalence, with rates falling from 170 to 59 per 100,000 population, figures suggest.

Health: Although the increase in multi drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) cases could partly be due to good diagnostic services, public health officials find the surge from two cases in January t

The number of children suffering from tuberculosis in Parsa, Bara, and Rautahat districts in mid-Tarai is far greater than that shown by government statistics.

Even as the public health department claims to have effectively controlled major diseases in the state, Maharashtra has earned the dubious distinction of being home to the largest incidence of both

Social activists and residents of the villages of two talukas of Johi and Dadu held a march on Monday in Dadu town in protest against pollution caused by work on a gas field located in taluka Johi.

Resist Taboo, Fight Graft To Get Better Treatment

Pune: Reshma (name changed) was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) during a free health check-up camp held in Satara, about 109 km from Pune. Government doctors asked her husband to start treatment immediately. The man first refused to accept that his wife has been infected. Then he locked her in a room for about a week. When doctors reached his doorsteps, he drove them away.

Overcrowding in hospitals, malnutrition, unhygienic tropical environs heighten problem in India

Fungal infections kill close to 1.3 million people globally every year, matching the mortality rate of AIDS, cancer, malaria and tuberculosis, and also cause blindness to 300 million people annually.

Men are outnumbering women tuberculosis (TB) patients in the state.