TB Yet Be Notifiable By Private Practitioner

Jan. 17 | Mandatory notification of Tuberculosis (TB) by private practitioners to the government authorities is yet to take off. The Government of India had made TB a notifiable disease in May of this year, which meant that it has become mandatory for private hospitals...

FDA Approved New Tuberculosis Drug Sirturo

Jan. 2 | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a Johnson & Johnson tuberculosis drug Sirturo, which is the first new medicine to fight the deadly infection in more than four decades. Sirturo, is approved to be used with older drugs to fight...

‘E-Nose’ Offers Hope Of Early TB Diagnosis

Nov. 15 | Indian researchers recently said they were close to developing an “electronic nose” to sniff out tuberculosis on the breath – offering rapid diagnosis that could save hundreds of thousands of lives. The “E-Nose” is a battery-operated,...

Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Spreading In Europe

Sep. 28 | Most of the people who are travelers would not know from where they got the deteriorating health condition that is diagnosed as drug-resistant tuberculosis.India is considered to be the hotspot along with northwest London and for the person who have lived...

A New Compound To Treat TB

Jun. 23 | Researchers at the Tuberculosis Research Centre, Chennai, India, claimed to have invented a compound named “Transitmycin” to treat tuberculosis and HIV virus. Speaking to the media, Vanaja Kumar, Head, Department of Bacteriology said, “we...

Report: Tuberculosis Deadliest Of ‘Neglected’ Diseases

May. 23 | Tuberculosis (TB) is the deadliest of the neglected diseases, which kills more than 1.8 million people every year. According to a review published in the British medical journal The Lancet, more than nine out of ten cases of tuberculosis could be averted...