Tuberculosis genomes discovered in 200-year old Hungarian mummy

Last Updated: Saturday, July 20, 2013, 19:00

Using a technique known as metagenomics, researchers at the University of Warwick have recovered tuberculosis (TB) genomes from the lung tissue of a 215-year old mummy.

Tuberculosis: 70% of cases occur in age group of 15-54 years

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 21:24

World Tuberculosis Day, which is marked every year on March 24, commemorates Dr Robert Koch’s discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacillus that causes tuberculosis (TB).

`50% TB patients are diabetic/pre-diabetic in TN`

Last Updated: Thursday, August 2, 2012, 21:21

Nearly 50 per cent of tuberculosis patients in Tamil Nadu were found to be having either diabetes or pre-diabetes conditions.

Govt bans serological test kits for TB diagnosis

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 19, 2012, 23:15

Government has banned the use of serodiagnostic test kits for diagnosis of Tuberculosis in the country, following inaccurate results which could pose a health risk.

Pneumonia claims a child every 20 seconds: Study

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 23:30

Pneumonia is one of the leading killers of children in India with as many as 3,70,000 children under five falling prey to it every year, making India the country with highest number of deaths due to the ailment in the world, according to a study.

Govt to launch website to monitor tuberculosis patients in May

Last Updated: Monday, April 16, 2012, 20:01

Govt is learnt to launch website in May to monitor patients affected by TB.

Drug-resistant TB blamed on Indian treatment flaws

Last Updated: Saturday, March 24, 2012, 09:15

India`s inadequate government-run tuberculosis treatment programs and a lack of regulation of the sale of drugs that fight the disease are responsible for the spiraling number of drug-resistant cases that are difficult to treat.

Funding cuts put 3.4 million TB patients at risk: NGOs

Last Updated: Friday, March 23, 2012, 09:12

A $1.7 billion funding shortfall to fight tuberculosis (TB) over the next five years means 3.4 million patients will go untreated and gains made against the disease will be reversed, three non-governmental (NGO) agencies said on Friday.

Joint action on HIV, TB ‘saved 900,000 lives worldwide’

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 09:51

Effective collaboration between health services to protect people from AIDS and tuberculosis saved nearly 910,000 lives globally over six years.

Electronic Nose can sniff tuberculosis

Last Updated: Sunday, November 6, 2011, 15:38

This `Electronic Nose` has the potential to diagnose TB in symptomatic patients.

Gates favours cheaper treatment for TB

Last Updated: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 20:24

Favouring a cheaper treatment for Tuberculosis, software czar and philanthropist Bill Gates said the need of the hour was to develop a vaccine for the disease towards which Indian scientists should work.