Hyderabad: It has been a challenge for the government of India to come up with a new drug to cure tuberculosis and scientists at IICT are keeping their fingers crossed as the new combination of PA8

Healthcare Providers Submit List After Govt Rule Made It Mandatory In 2012

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has recorded 727 fresh cases of tuberculosis (TB), as reported by private hospitals in the city ever since it was made a notifiable disease by the Union government last May. This is in addition to the 300 cases on an average reported every month from the civic and government hospitals.

At least 30 unnatural deaths, 15 of which owe direct allegiance to diarrhoea, have been reported from various remote villages of Bastar division in the past one month.

At least 30 unnatural deaths, 15 of which owe direct allegiance to diarrhoea, have been reported from various remote villages of Bastar division in the past one month.

As many as 32,664 children below five years have died in Mumbai city and suburbs in the past five years (from 2008 to 2012).

MUMBAI: The good and bad of Mumbai are both translating into an unhealthy portrait of the city.

On the one hand, its status as the highest per capita income city could be fuelling its biggest health problems — namely the twin epidemics of diabetes and hypertension. On the other, being one of the most densely populated cities in the country is ensuring that one tuberculosis patient spreads the air-borne disease to at least 15 others within a year.

Mumbai seems to have managed to ‘fight the bite’ over the past two years and control malaria to an extent but dengue and tuberculosis have raised their ugly head.

‘Nutrition has been identified as one of the factors impacting treatment outcomes’.

Chemists Say They Are Yet To Get Drugs With Revised Pricing

From Monday the most essential drugs will go cheaper by10 to 50% as the revised prices fixed by the national pharmaceutical pricing authority comes into force. In the first phase the prices of 151 formulations will come down and the remaining 91 formulations will become cheaper from next month.