TB

India has a high burden of Tuberculosis, recording close to 2.64 million cases and 75,000 plus deaths in 2019. A considerable percentage of these cases come from underdeveloped, remote areas without proper access to healthcare services. It…
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Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar today chaired the brainstorming session on Strategies for Ending TB by 2025. Reiterating Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s commitment to eliminate TB in…
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Biomoneta, a Bengaluru-based startup funded by Government of India and Karnataka Government has developed an air decontamination technology which promised to eliminate airborne COVID-19 virus with 99.9999% efficiency in any closed setting.…
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The fight against Tuberculosis (TB) could soon get sharper. Researchers at the Hyderabad-based Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) have got new insight into the molecular mechanism of the TB bacterium which helps it evade…
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The tribal population in India has a substantially higher prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) than the general population due to poor nutrition levels, smoking, and alcohol consumption, a recent study has revealed. Tribal groups,…
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The fight against Tuberculosis (TB) could be in for a major boost, with a team of researchers drawn from several Indian institutions developing a new diagnostic technique that promises to be easier, better and  more affordable. TB is…
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Tuberculosis kills. When it doesn’t, its effect stays for what is a lifetime. To make things worse, the current approach for treating TB consumes a lot of time. This puts pressure on TB control programmes. Here are some figures from World…
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