Refuting the claims of Hinduja Hospital that claimed to have detected 12 cases of “total drug resistant” tuberculosis, the Union health ministry on Tuesday said that the isolates collected from Mah

The civic administration on Monday decided upon a three-pronged strategy to deal with Total Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (TDR-TB) reported by a city hospital,

Manisha Mhaiskar, Additional Municipal Commissioner of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, told reporters here. Private practitioners will now have to refer all TB cases or those having similar symptoms to the nearest Directly Observed Treatment Short course ( dispensaries.

The detection of 12 cases of totally drug resistant (TDR) tuberculosis (TB) in Maharashtra has set the alarm bells ringing in the Union health ministry.

The emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the country has sparked off a major health alert with researchers in Mumbai warning that lack of cure could result in heavy casualties.

Almost three years after the first set of patients were diagnosed with Totally Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (TDR-TB) in Iran, researchers at the P D Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Ce

This is as scary as it can get. The PD Hinduja hospital detected four people with total drug resistant (TDR) tuberculosis (TB), the first such cases in the country till November last year.

LUCKNOW: Every second Indian undergoing treatment for tuberculosis comes from Uttar Pradesh.

NEW DELHI, 20 DEC: A World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendation to ban use of rapid test kits used to detect tuberculosis in developing countries notwithstanding, there is rampant use of this k

Around 40 per cent people in Delhi are infected with tuberculosis (TB), said Mayor Rajni Abbi and called for spreading awareness about the disease.

GMCH to set up new lab to test sputum for micro bacterium tuberculosis

For the first time in the North-east, an intermediate reference laboratory is going to be set up at the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) for the culture and drug sensitivity test of sputum for micro bacterium tuberculosis.