Tb Drugs

Victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984, which is one of the world's worst industrial disasters, and their children are now facing a new challenge - a shortage of drugs to treat tuberculosis at government DOTS centres.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued a statement refuting recent media reports that suggest a shortage of anti-Tuberculosis (TB) drugs in India and question the efficacy of these drugs under the National TB Elimination Programme

A drone successfully delivered vital medicines to a remote area in the hill state of Uttarakhand. The unmanned vehicle supplied tuberculosis drugs to a health centre in Tehri in the Garhwal district.

Diagnostic machines used for testing drug-resistant tuberculosis can now be used for screening and confirmation of COVID-19 cases, the apex health research body, ICMR, said.

World TB Day 2018: Home remedies help the drugs work much better and will cure you of tuberculosis in a faster and better way.

Vitamin C is an essential nutrient which can prove to be quite beneficial for our body. Study says, Tuberculosis drugs work better with vitamin C

Antibiotics that are currently in clinical development are insufficient to combat the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance, a World Health Organisation (WHO) report said.

New Delhi: About 8,000 patients pass through Dr Zarir F Udwadia’s busy clinic every year. The patients who are usually referred to him by colleagues from different parts of the country are difficult cases of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). An expert in drug-resistant tuberculosis and interstitial lung disease (ILD), Dr Udwadia is curr...

New Delhi: The government has introduced Tuberculosis tablets in orange and strawberry flavours for children who don’t take adequate dosage fearing it to be bitter. The initiative, that aims to improve the treatment of tuberculosis and child survival rate has been rolled out in five states and will be expanded to 17 more states by the next month....

A new study has found that India could witness an alarming spike in cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the next two decades.

Tuberculosis is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide and India has the maximum number of cases of this deadly but curable and treatable disease. The World Health Organizations Global Tuberculosis Report in 2016 estimates that there are 79,000 cases of MDR-TB or Multi-Drug Resistance Tuberculosis. This is becoming a serious problem and a big ...

The rise of multi-drug resistant (MDR) and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis is threatening to outdo years of progress in controlling the disease.

TB is treatable, however, the bacteria that cause TB can develop resistance to the antimicrobial drugs used to cure the disease. This is known as Drug-Resistant TB or Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB).

Tuberculosis is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide and India has the maximum number of cases of this deadly but curable and treatable disease. The World Health Organizations Global Tuberculosis Report in 2016 estimates that there are 79,000 cases of MDR-TB or Multi-Drug Resistance Tuberculosis. This is becoming a serious problem and a big ...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court last week had directed the Centre to change its thrice weekly regimen of tuberculosis (TB) drugs for patients to a daily regimen. The orders were issued on a PIL filed by TB specialist Dr Raman Kakkar, who said the current treatment protocol was endangering lives. For the last 25 years, the National TB programme ...

Victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984, which is one of the world's worst industrial disasters, and their children are now facing a new challenge - a shortage of drugs to treat tuberculosis at government DOTS centres.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued a statement refuting recent media reports that suggest a shortage of anti-Tuberculosis (TB) drugs in India and question the efficacy of these drugs under the National TB Elimination Programme

A drone successfully delivered vital medicines to a remote area in the hill state of Uttarakhand. The unmanned vehicle supplied tuberculosis drugs to a health centre in Tehri in the Garhwal district.

Diagnostic machines used for testing drug-resistant tuberculosis can now be used for screening and confirmation of COVID-19 cases, the apex health research body, ICMR, said.

World TB Day 2018: Home remedies help the drugs work much better and will cure you of tuberculosis in a faster and better way.

Vitamin C is an essential nutrient which can prove to be quite beneficial for our body. Study says, Tuberculosis drugs work better with vitamin C

Antibiotics that are currently in clinical development are insufficient to combat the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance, a World Health Organisation (WHO) report said.

New Delhi: About 8,000 patients pass through Dr Zarir F Udwadia’s busy clinic every year. The patients who are usually referred to him by colleagues from different parts of the country are difficult cases of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). An expert in drug-resistant tuberculosis and interstitial lung disease (ILD), Dr Udwadia is curr...

New Delhi: The government has introduced Tuberculosis tablets in orange and strawberry flavours for children who don’t take adequate dosage fearing it to be bitter. The initiative, that aims to improve the treatment of tuberculosis and child survival rate has been rolled out in five states and will be expanded to 17 more states by the next month....

A new study has found that India could witness an alarming spike in cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the next two decades.

Tuberculosis is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide and India has the maximum number of cases of this deadly but curable and treatable disease. The World Health Organizations Global Tuberculosis Report in 2016 estimates that there are 79,000 cases of MDR-TB or Multi-Drug Resistance Tuberculosis. This is becoming a serious problem and a big ...

The rise of multi-drug resistant (MDR) and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis is threatening to outdo years of progress in controlling the disease.

TB is treatable, however, the bacteria that cause TB can develop resistance to the antimicrobial drugs used to cure the disease. This is known as Drug-Resistant TB or Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB).

Tuberculosis is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide and India has the maximum number of cases of this deadly but curable and treatable disease. The World Health Organizations Global Tuberculosis Report in 2016 estimates that there are 79,000 cases of MDR-TB or Multi-Drug Resistance Tuberculosis. This is becoming a serious problem and a big ...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court last week had directed the Centre to change its thrice weekly regimen of tuberculosis (TB) drugs for patients to a daily regimen. The orders were issued on a PIL filed by TB specialist Dr Raman Kakkar, who said the current treatment protocol was endangering lives. For the last 25 years, the National TB programme ...