Twenty years ago, tuberculosis was the scourge of the socio-economically backward, often slum dwellers forced to live in shanties, without a care for personal or civic hygiene.

Following the questions raised by the Union Health Ministry’s Central TB division about the presence of a total drug resistant TB (TDR-TB) in the city, the BMC is now working on multiple projects i

Acts of spitting in public, although looked down upon, continues unabated across the city.

Change the current drug policy was the refrain at a meeting of doctors at the KEM Hospital on Wednesday to chart out and discuss the plan of containing the XXDR-TB (extensively drug resistant TB).

Even as the Centre refused to acknowledge the emergence of totally drug resistant (TDR) TB cases, the Maharashtra government has decided to introduce mandatory notification of all multi drug resist

The public health scare over totally drug resistant TB ended on a fruitful note for the city-Mumbai will be the site of an ambitious pilot project to combat tuberculosis in an urban setting.

Denying the existence of Totally Drug Resistant (TDR) Tuberculosis, the Central team, which held its final meeting at St. George’s Hospital Complex on Wednesday claimed that the fatal form of TB, which had created panic in the country was in fact Extra Extensively Drug Resistat (XXDR) TB.

The Central team comprised senior chief medical officer, Central TB Division (CTD), Consultant (drug resistant TB), CTD and national programme officer (laboratories) and WHO-India.

A Central team deputed by the Union Health and Family Welfare arrived here to ascertain the “facts” about the reports suggesting that 12 patients were “diagnosed” with Totally Drug Resistant Tuberc