Tuberculosis

Health

Rise and fall of a pathogen

How did tuberculosis cease to be a deadly killer in the West?

Publication Date:

14/12/1995

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Epidemics, Infectious Diseases, Tuberculosis, Life Science

India

UNITED NATIONS

A World Health Organisation's (WHO) recent B Programme report has warned the world community of tuberculosis epidemic. The annual global death toll from TB could rise to 4 million by AD

Publication Date:

29/04/1995

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Tuberculosis, UN, WHO

India

Aiding a disaster

The advent of AIDS could sharply increase the incidence of tuberculosis and of kala azar

Publication Date:

14/01/1995

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

4

Issue:

19950115

pp:

0

Tags:

Malaria, Health Care, Drugs, Cholera, Tuberculosis, India

India

Death's agent

Historical ills Malaria It has been hypothesised that the malarial parasite evolved either with humans or even earlier. Hippocrates wrote about it in the 5th century BC. In India, Ayurvedic

Publication Date:

14/01/1995

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

4

Issue:

19950115

pp:

0

Tags:

Malaria, Health Care, Drugs, Cholera, Tuberculosis, India

India

Rising trend

Right from the "60s, DDT resistance of the malaria parasite host, Anopheles culicifacies, was detected in Gujarat. It was a rising trend. Another important vector, A stephensi, became so rugged that

Publication Date:

14/01/1995

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

4

Issue:

19950115

pp:

0

Tags:

Malaria, Health Care, Drugs, Cholera, Tuberculosis, India

India

The microbes strike back

Diseases that were cheerfully believed to have been eradicated are inexplicably cropping up again in India in deadlier, drug resistant forms

Publication Date:

14/01/1995

Author(s): Max Martin, Ambika Sharma

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

4

Issue:

19950115

pp:

0

Tags:

Malaria, Health Care, Drugs, Cholera, Tuberculosis, India

India

Garlic wards off TB

Garlic is effective in treating tuberculosis, especially the kind which is resistant to antibiotics, claim scientists P Ratnakar, D Srilatha and P S Murthy of the University College of Medical

Publication Date:

14/11/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Tuberculosis, India, Delhi

India

Quicker detection of TB and hepatitis

Two new tests allow a faster and more accurate detection of tuberculosis and hepatitis B than possible earlier

Publication Date:

14/06/1994

Author(s): Devendra Chauhan

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Diagnostic Methods, Hepatitis, Tuberculosis, India, Delhi

Energy

Herb to the rescue

Scientists at the Jammu laboratory of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have found a Himalayan herb, which can considerably increase the absorption of tuberculosis (TB) drugs

Publication Date:

14/12/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Medical Research, Ayurveda, Herbal Medcine, Tuberculosis, Council Of Scientific And Industrial Research (CSIR)

Industry