New Delhi: With cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis on the rise, the government has finally agreed to make this a notifiable disease. That means, every doctor will have to register each case. At least a thousand Indians die of tuberculosis every day. The biggest threat at this point is what experts call totally drug resistant TB, which is incurable, and highly contagious. Fifteen cases have been confirmed in Mumbai alone. But...
10:03 AM, May 09, 2012
Mumbai: Four months after Mumbai's premier Hinduja hospital reported 12 cases of "Totally Drug Resistant TB", the hospital has reported 2 new cases. The bad news is that the state health department remains in denial. Nearly 1,000 Indians die of tuberculosis every day, and the biggest threat at this point is the Totally Drug Resistant TB - incurable, and highly contagious. A fifth of the total TB deaths in the...
02:03 PM, Apr 30, 2012
New Delhi: It's World Tuberculosis Day and India has a long way to go to tackle the disease. Two people die every three minutes in the country due to Tuberculosis, adding 1.8 million new cases every year. A preventable, curable disease which should have been eradicated 50 years ago, has turned deadlier. One fifth of the world's tuberculosis cases are in India, a country that adds 1.8 million new TB...
01:43 PM, Mar 24, 2012
Tuberculosis kills 800 people in India every year. By the time you finish reading this article, 2 people would've lost their battle to a preventable and curable disease. Approximately 80% of the Indian population is exposed to the tuberculosis bacilli by the time they turn 20. As a part of CNN-IBN's efforts to increase awareness about this disease, on World Tuberculosis Day, Dr Sanjeev Mehta, leading Chest Physician with Lilavati...
11:54 AM, Mar 24, 2012
New Delhi: A new superhero Balgam Bhai is now in town to spread awareness on tuberculosis. Much like Superman and Spiderman, he's got a message, which is perhaps most relevant for the 21st century India. Launched in five different languages, the new tagline of a campaign to promote testing for tuberculosis in India says, "Do hafte ho gaye kya?" Radharani Mitra, the National Creative Director of the BBC World Service...
10:03 AM, Feb 20, 2012
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has labelled a hospital's claims of a fatal tuberculosis strain as premature. The question is whether the government is downplaying the disease. 1,000 Indians die of tuberculosis every day and 20 per cent of the total TB deaths in the world take place in the country. The picture seems to be getting darker with reports that show 12 cases of the killer, totally drug resistant TB....
10:21 AM, Jan 20, 2012
Mumbai: In a dangerous trend, tuberculosis, which already kills a thousand people everyday in the country, has mutated yet again - this time infecting 12 people with an incurable form of the disease. It doesn't get any more alarming. As you read this story, India is being gripped by a lethal mutated strain of tuberculosis which has no cure. In the last three months alone, Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai has...
09:06 AM, Jan 08, 2012
New Delhi: Private doctors are using Tuberculosis antibody tests that are known for Misdiagnosis instead of cheaper and more effective tests. It is a blood test known to misdiagnose Tuberculosis in patients. The World Health Organisation's latest TB policy, after reviewing 94 studies globally, clearly advises against it. The TB DOTS programme in India doesn't use it. Yet, 1.5 million Indians are still given the TB antibody test every year....
10:51 AM, Aug 05, 2011
London: Current checks at British airports are failing to detect the latent form of tuberculosis, particularly in immigrants arriving from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, according to a new study conducted by Imperial College London. Professor Ajit Lalvani, Director of the Tuberculosis Research Unit at Imperial College, who led the study, said, "Our findings indicate that immigrants arriving in the UK from countries with high burdens of TB have a high...
12:18 PM, Apr 22, 2011
New Delhi: With 1.8 million new cases of tuberculosis every year, India desperately needs more efficient prevention, diagnosis and treatment. The World Health Organisation has been endorsing a medical test called XPERT MTB. Dr Nata Manabde, WHO India Director said, "It's faster, quicker. The WHO believes that this can change the TB dynamics in the country." Quicker diagnosis would lead to more efficient treatment. The new test allows for a...
09:10 AM, Mar 24, 2011
Geneva: Alcohol causes nearly 4 per cent of deaths worldwide, more than AIDS, tuberculosis or violence, the World Health Organization warned on Friday. Rising incomes have triggered more drinking in heavily populated countries in Africa and Asia, including India and South Africa, and binge drinking is a problem in many developed countries, the United Nations agency said. Yet alcohol control policies are weak and remain a low priority for most...
12:12 PM, Feb 13, 2011
The test promises to diagnose tuberculosis in 90 minutes as opposed to traditional tests that can take up to 90 days. ...
11:43 AM, Dec 20, 2010
London: The number of people infected with tuberculosis has jumped by 50 percent in London in the last decade, making it the tuberculosis capital of Western Europe, a new report says. Unlike other countries in the region where tuberculosis is dropping, the disease is on the rise in Britain, particularly in London. In 1999, there were about 2,309 cases. By 2009, London had 3,450 cases of Britain's more than 9,000...
01:02 PM, Dec 17, 2010
New Delhi: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has endorsed a new and novel test which promises to give accurate diagnosis for tuberculosis (TB) in just 100 minutes. "This new test represents a major milestone for global TB diagnosis and care. It also represents new hope for millions of people who are at the highest risk of TB and drug-resistant diseases," Mario Raviglione, director of the WHO's Stop TB department, said....
04:22 PM, Dec 10, 2010
The capsule will soon undergo clinical trials at All India Institute of Medical Sciences. ...
07:17 PM, Jun 01, 2010
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