Tamil Nadu uses inexpensive method to treat rodenticide poisoning
Currently, 17 government hospitals across 15 districts in the State undertake plasma exchange to treat rodenticide-induced acute liver injury and
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Gross mismanagement: On TB drug shortages when India wants to ‘eliminate’ TB by 2025
With less than two years left to achieve the ambitious goal set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2018 to
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Over-reliance on smear microscopy for TB detection continues
The overreliance on smear microscopy has continued in 2023 with 79% of presumptive TB cases detected using smear microscopy and
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Anaemia prevalence in eight States found to be overestimated
The overall prevalence of iron deficiency was just 18.4%. It was highest among adolescent girls (31.5%) followed by adult women
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Fact check: Contrary to government’s claim, there is TB drugs shortage in India
TB drug shortage began last year when Rifampicin — a medicine used for treating drug-sensitive TB — was not available
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76% of TB patients received payment for nutritional support
Under the Ni-kshay Poshan Yojana programme, ₹500 per month is credited into the account of a person with TB for
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India achieved record TB notification in 2023
In 2022, India had notified 24,22,121 TB cases, which the India TB report 2023 remarked as a “milestone year for
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Missing TB cases in the private sector
India made notification of TB patients mandatory in 2012 to address the problem of delayed diagnosis, suboptimal quality of care,
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Should India study wastewater to track malaria, dengue?
Choosing priority pathogens for wastewater surveillance should be based not just on feasibility of the detection but also on the
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TB prevention: BCG revaccination study in high-risk adults to begin in 23 States
Since the government felt that a trial would take too long to complete and wanted to implement BCG revaccination at
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Eight months on, States wait for 3HP TB preventive drug
Though the Central TB Division has not supplied 3HP drugs to States since its roll-out in March, Tamil Nadu and
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False alarm: On the outbreak of influenza-like illness in China
Nearly four years after the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, the capital of the Hubei Province in China, resulting in
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U.S. data underscore benefits of chickenpox vaccination
Twenty-five years of data (1995-2019) from the U.S. show a sharp drop in the incidence of chickenpox and shingles in
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