Jharkhand has become the first state in the country to notify a workplace policy on tuberculosis (TB). The feat assumes significance for India, which leads the world in TB cases, according to WH...

What’s spending quality time with Izhaan been like? Since March this year, we have spent each day together and what a blissful time it has been to watch him grow. He’s such a loving boy, ...

Q. I hit my toe on the door. The CT scan showed a small hairline crack. The surgeon just taped  the toe with the adjacent one. This is called “buddy taping” and usually is all that i...

Sir — It was worrying to learn that poor diet is a greater threat to public health across the world than dangerous diseases like malaria, tuberculosis and measles. This finding was published in a re...

Many patients who have successfully completed treatment for tuberculosis may continue to display poor lung function and face the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a study in India ...

Health researchers have shown that private pharmacists in India can help find tuberculosis patients and direct them for diagnosis and appropriate treatment and curb treatment delays that threaten Indi...

Indian scientists have discovered how tuberculosis bacteria hide themselves in the human body and proposed novel strategies that they hope will cure the disease within a month, compared with the six m...

A higher dose and a new injection route may dramatically improve the protective power of a century-old and still the only commercial tuberculosis vaccine, scientists said on Wednesday.The researchers ...

Sixty-six employees at the Tuberculosis Hospital in Sewri here contracted the disease in the past five years, authorities said in reply to an RTI query.Of these 66 employees, 17 died, 39 had got cured...

Sir — Cases of tuberculosis are on the rise in India. Yet, the Union health minister, Harsh Vardhan, has set a goal of eradicating TB from India by 2025. One problem with TB is that it is often cons...