An experimental tuberculosis shot for children works best when it is not given with other vaccines, a new study has found.

The finding raises concerns because doctors working in Africa prefer to give babies as many vaccines as possible at once.

Scientists Believe The Compound They Stumbled Upon Off The Rameswaram Coast Will Help Treat TB, HIV

Chennai: For years, scientists at the Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC) here have been digging in deserts and under the sea hoping to unearth chemical compounds that had the potential to be developed into drugs to fight tuberculosis.

General Secretary, TB Association, district Peshawar, Dr Saeedul Majeed has said the number of TB patients in Peshawar had increased during the last one year. He was addressing executive body meeting of the association on Thursday. He called for bringing improvement in the economic conditions of the people in the country to control this disease.

A molecule extracted from a marine micro-organism, found off the coast of Rameshwaram, could potentially be the next biggest development in treating TB and HIV, claimed researchers here on Wednesday.

Offering new hope to those living with HIV as well as TB patients, a group of scientists from the Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC), IIT-Madras and Periyar University claim to have extracted the m

Bangalore: Twenty lions and tigers have died over 15 months at the Bannerghatta Biological Park.

According a reply by the government to a question in the Assembly, nine tigers and 11 lions in the park died of various diseases and ailments between January 2010 and March 2011.
Of the nine tigers, six were from safari and three rescued from European circuses.

Sri Lanka has come to the forefront from among 11 South East Asian countries with regard to several health indices according to the 2010 world health situation report published by the World Health Organization (WHO), said the Health Ministry.

Priority given to free healthcare services by the government, people's high literacy rate and their ability to understand health related information and a

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has frozen payments on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of disease-fighting grants to China, one of the charity

60% Of Dosages Being Prescribed Violate Standard Guidelines: Study
New Delhi: Almost 60% of dosages being prescribed to patients suffering from tuberculosis

The Municipal Mazdoor Union has alleged that in the last five years, 60 employees of the BMC-run Sewri TB hospital have suffered from tuberculosis.