March 24 is World Tuberculosis Day and the day holds great significance in our country because we’re the most TB-afflicted country in the world. Our huge population along with poor healthcare services has made us very vulnerable to the disease. Contrary to popular belief that the disease afflicts
April 30 2013, 4:50 pm
Read MoreMarch 24 is World Tuberculosis Day and how India fares against the disease plays a major role in containing it the world over. India accounts for 20% of the world’s TB cases and the disease infects 3 million people a year and kills over 3 lakh every year. Damning as these statistics, in Jan
April 17 2013, 8:44 am
Read MoreOn World Tuberculosis Day 2013 we tell you more about this deadly disease which accounts for half a million deaths in South East Asia every year. TB is an air-borne disease which affects people whose immunity is compromised. eg: Infants, old people, pregnant women, women who have recently
March 24 2013, 10:27 am
Read MoreIn India, 2 patients succumb every three minutes to TB disease. Urban metros like Mumbai with have it worse because of poor hygienic condition and widespread poverty. Despite our best efforts to control this disease, mortality has been increasing. What makes it worse are the new drug resistant
March 24 2013, 9:57 am
Read MoreMumbai has recorded a rise in the number of extra extensively drug-resistant TB (XXDR TB). Currently 24 patients have been detected positive for the deadly strain of TB. This figure is 4 times the number of cases that existed at the same time last year. XXDR TB was first found in 2011 in 12
March 24 2013, 9:56 am
Read MoreCommunicable diseases like tuberculosis a very troublesome for densely populated cities like Mumbai where there’s ample scope for pathogen to spread from person to person. After Mayor Sunil Prabhu directed the BMC health department to chalk out a comprehensive plan to fight the disease, the
February 26 2013, 8:59 am
Read MoreTill date, the location in the body where the TB bacteria hide was not known making it difficult to completely eliminate it even after rigorous treatment. The bacteria remain in dormant but viable state but may reactivate to cause active TB in people who have been successively treated earlier. Now,
January 31 2013, 3:28 pm
Read More‘I have constant flu like body aches, it seriously feels like I have the flu all of the time… I also have really bad body twitching, headaches and neck, shoulder pain, not to mention my hips! I feel like I am 80 years old not 33’, lamented Amy in one of the health-boards. Eighteen or eighty,
April 9 2013, 8:07 am
Read MoreAccording to Press Information Bureau, tuberculosis in India continues to take a toll of 1,000 per day or one every minute. It is estimated that there are 14 million TB cases in our country out of which 3.5 million are sputum positive (presence of tuberculosis bacteria in sputum sample). About 1
March 24 2013, 9:56 am
Read MoreWith news of the recent resolve by the government to add warning signs on medication, there is a wide spread sigh of relief amongst physicians, many lauding the government on its initiative. Doctors say that diseases that were easily treatable with first line antibiotics (mild form) now need to
February 25 2013, 9:06 am
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