Heartened by the success rate of the new laboratories across Maharashtra in testing multi-drug resistant tuberculosis samples (MDR-TB), authorities of the state TB control programme are toying with

Drug resistance seems to have emerged as an endemic problem in India and the Union Health Ministry has written to the Planning Commission asking for a national programme to tackle anti-microbial re

Cases of infant mortality continued to grow in January compared to previous months with on average 65 children per district dying before their first birthday as compared to 56 in December and 51 in

Jammu: It seems the efforts of the government to control tuberculosis have not received much success in Jammu and Kashmir as nearly 4,000 cases have been detected in the Jammu region alone during 2

The Union Health Ministry’s plan to upgrade the Baccillus Calmette Guerin (BCG) Vaccine Laboratory in Guindy in Tamil Nadu has hit a wall with the State Government yet to give its nod for acquiring

Chest specialists Association office bearers said that Tuberculosis (TB) among infectious diseases is the second most common cause of death in the world.

The government on Tuesday contested the WHO figures that put the number of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases in India at 63,000, saying there were only 10,267. As many as 38,287 suspected cases were examined till the end of 2011 and of them, 10,267 have been diagnosed with MDR-TB and 6,994 put on treatment, according to TB India-2012 — the annual status report of the Revised National TB Control Programme (RNCTP) brought out by the Health Ministry.MDR-TB prevalence

On the occasion of the World TB Day, the government has launched initiatives to eradicate tuberculosis by 2050 from the country.

The percentage of MDR in new TB cases in India is 2.1

India had an estimated 63,000 cases of notified multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in 2010, the highest in the South East Asia region, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.

Pune: Thirty-six new cases of multiple-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) have been reported in Pune district in the last 40 days.