The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests ...

Shortages of manpower and low expenditure made the implementation of NTEP deficient in the State of Andhra Pradesh, making ...

Consumption, phthisis, the white plague—a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The 100-day tuberculosis prevention programme has identified close to 5,000 TB patients from screening 53 ...

Scientists discovered genes in the tuberculosis bacterium that becomes essential for the pathogen's survival when it's exposed to air through coughing. These genes could be targets for new therapies ...

Purnima (name changed), a 48-year-old homemaker from a small village in Assam, had been managing anemia with appropriate ...

Union Health Ministry's 100-day TB elimination campaign screens high-risk groups, offers X-ray screening, and provides ...

Tuberculosis lives and thrives in the lungs. When the bacteria that cause the disease are coughed into the air, they are ...

He's a star of the BioPark, having lived there for decades. Now, Albert the Asian elephant has a new lease on life, after a ...

Such workers play a critical role in notifying people who test positive for tuberculosis, getting them treatment and screening their close contacts for infection. “Patients may get a diagnosis ...