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World Health Day – 7 April 2011 With emerging drug resistance gradually making existing array of curative drugs ineffective, treatment opti...

In lead up to this year's World Health Day (7th April), a coalition of health and human rights groups launched a campaign to stop tortu...

In lead up to the World Health Day (7th April), interview with the President-elect 2012 of the India's largest association of surgeons h...

This is not sensational news but in spotlight because CNS recently reported that genital tuberculosis was one of the lead causes of tubal in...

Jairam Ramesh , Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Environment and Forests, Government of India, has assured the affected communitie...

"Nothing for Us without Us" was said by an activist friend from Africa at one of the conferences. Another World TB Day (WTBD) has ...

On World TB Day 2011, WHO , the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the Stop TB Partner ship called upon world leaders...

A two day convention of rural women leaders, which was held on 24th and 25th March,2011, in the east Uttar Pradesh town of Mau, brought toge...

People need not be afraid of tuberculosis (TB) as it is completely curable. People should be encouraged to go to the government-run free ant...

Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) - cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes - are no longer diseases of the ...

Dr Binayak Sen, a medical practitioner and a civil liberties' activist, has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Chhattisgarh. Amnesty...

A promising new diagnostic test will finally help detect more people with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), increasing the urgency to so...

European politicians, tuberculosis (TB) advocates and health advisers are gathering to discuss an innovative financing model that would enab...

Key questions regarding the new tools and new challenges facing TB control and prevention today are being addressed through an innovative in...

Worldwide concerted efforts are being made, with renewed pledges on World TB Day (24th March), to rid this planet of the scourge of tubercu...

A Regional Women Leaders' Convention is being held on 24-25 March 2011, in Mau, UP, as part of the Empowering Rural Women (ERW) program...

World TB Day is on 24th March 2011 [To read in Hindi language , click here ] Clearly more needs to be done for effective tuberculosis (TB)...

Water constitutes about three fourths of the earth's surface, but only less than one percent of it can be used by its inhabitants. Most ...

World TB Day, 24 March According to the Stop TB Partnership , For World TB Day 2011 we enter the second year of a two-year campaign, "...

Thus spoke Robert Oppenheimer to Harry S. Truman in August 1945 af...

Meaningful community engagement is so central to addressing tuberculosis (TB) of all forms. In preventing, diagnosing and treating genital T...

The Indian Prime Minister and citizens both made a call for scrutiny of India's nuclear plants. Citizens in Lucknow called for a public ...

Recent nuclear emergency in Japan leaves no doubt that this world needs to renounce nuclear power for military and civil/ energy purposes, a...

World Sleep Day is held every year on March 18th, with a view to raise awareness about the merits of sleeping well for a healthy life. The ...

Starting antiretroviral therapy (ART) in people co-infected with HIV and tuberculosis (TB) save lives. This reinforces already existing body...

Surgical Site Infections (SSIs) are infections associated with surgical procedures and are a major source of post-operative illness. "T...

When one hears of farm suicides, Vidharbha in Maharashtra may come to mind immediately. And then perhaps Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh or Kal...

Although women get diagnosed for tuberculosis (TB) later than men, treatment outcomes among women are better than men with higher TB treatme...

Tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes are better among women as compared to those in men, said Dr KS Sachdeva, Chief Medical Officer (CMO), R...

Close on the heels of International Women's Day 2011, comes the news of a path breaking research which puts the onus of a healthy genera...

Genital tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of tubal infertility, said Mamta Jacob of Global Health Advocates ( GHA ) at a meeting on import...

It is no coincidence but rather an ill-synergy of a range of factors that increase the risk for a woman to get tuberculosis (TB). In India, ...

According to the study done by Tuberculosis Research Centre in India alarming numbers of women with tuberculosis (TB) become homeless once d...