Chicago: Over a million people worldwide diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) go on to develop an incurable but manageable fungal infection, which is usually left untreated because it is mistaken for a

India might have to bear the burden of funding expensive treatments like second-line drugs for HIV patients and DOTS, plus for those suffering from multi-drug resistant TB.

Health activists have reacted strongly to the decision of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to cancel new grants to the three pandemics until 2014.

The decision was taken at the 25 th Board of the Global Fund as a consequence of donor governments' failure to fulfil their financial pledges to the Global Fund.

KUPWARA, Nov 18: The case detection rate of different types of tuberculosis (TB) has increased manifold over past 10 years in Kupwara district, witnessing as many as 30 deaths in the past years.

The commonest test used to diagnose tuberculosis — an expensive blood test available in the form of a kit — could be one of the reasons for the rising drug resistance of the tuberculosis bacterium.

New Delhi:Breathalyzers, hitherto used to test your breath for alcohol, will soon help detect tuberculosis, one of the most infectious airborne diseases.

A global initiative to develop new tuberculosis vaccines to supplement the now 90-year-old Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), commonly administered to infants as part of vaccination protocols, will fea

Russia plans to step up its international role in fighting infectious disease across eastern Europe and central Asia, in what some observers see as the latest effort by the Kremlin to reassert its

GUWAHATI: The prevalence of tobacco use in any form is highest in the Northeast. Mizoram has the highest prevalence of tobacco use, around 67.2 per cent.