A spike in the number of dengue cases reported in the capital over the past one month prompted Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to hold a review meeting with senior officials from the Delhi g

More than half of the people in the world rely on coal, wood, crop wastes or dung for their energy needs, according to the World Health Organization.

Pune: Forty-nine patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) have died of the infection within 19 months of diagnosis and being put on anti-tuberculosis drugs in Pune district, the lat

New Delhi: Giving crowd sourcing a whole new meaning, scientists at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have initiated a countrywide venture to build a chemical library with d

The state has recorded its first case of the most feared form of drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Doctors at the National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases (NITRD), Delhi, confirmed the case as extensively drug resistant or XDR-TB on August 30.

Akhi Akhter (11), a promising student of class-V of Rajapur Government Primary School at Karapara union under Bagerhat Sadar upazila, over 300 km away from capital Dhaka, had to stop schooling due

Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases have shown a worrying increase in the state and their number has shown almost 100% rise in eight southern districts of Punjab in the past one year.

Washington: Scientists have developed a novel patch with tiny, biodegradable needles that can penetrate the skin and accurately diagnose tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis cases are on the rise in the northeastern state of Mizoram with around 600 cases being detected during the first six months this year against only 80 cases in the entire year last year