The citizens of Sadiqabad have demanded a ban on the two-stroke rickshaws which emit smoke and are causing rapid spread of various diseases in the city.

Bangladesh has had 40 years of exceptional progress in health, with infant mortality down, life expectancy up and good disease control, all despite being one of the world's poorest countries, resea

KANPUR: City based paediatrics advised parents to take extra care of their kids in winters to keep pneumonia at bay, on World Pneumonia day observed on November 12, every year.

Nutritional support during treatment of pulmonary TB recommended

Severely undernourished tuberculosis (TB) patients in rural India have twice a higher risk of death, a scientific research study has concluded. The study conducted at Jan Swasthya Sahyog (JSS or Peoples’ Health Support Group), a non-profit voluntary organisation, suggests the need for nutritional support during treatment of pulmonary TB among these patients.

New Delhi: Severe undernutrition when diagnosed could mean at least two times higher odds of death in TB patients despite treatment, concluded a recent study which found shocking levels of malnutri

Over 9.3 lakh Indians with the world’s most dangerous airborne disease, tuberculosis, are currently undetected by the country’s health system, the World Health Organization’s World TB Report 2013 r

Global efforts to rein in tuberculosis helped cut the death toll to 1.3 million last year, but drug-resistant forms of the disease are sparking huge concern, the WHO said Wednesday.