Editorial: The ways of tobacco companies
For several decades, tobacco companies across the world vehemently denied and blatantly deceived and misled people about the dangers of
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Editorial: Smoking reveals a patchy record
Even as the prevalence of daily smoking among men in India has come down from about 34 to 23 per
Read MoreWhy oral polio vaccination must for India-bound Pakistanis
With no cases of polio being reported for three consecutive years, India will be declared as polio-free by the WHO
Read More‘In 2003, RNTCP had eight lines in the guidelines that related to TB in children’
After years of neglect by the WorldPu Health Organisation and almost all the national tuberculosis programmes [NTP] across the world,
Read MoreClinical trials on child-friendly bedaquiline MDR-TB drug for children initiated
“Before the BPCA [Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act] and the PREA [Paediatric Research Equity Act] became law, more than 80
Read More‘Nuances of childhood TB are never taught in medical schools’
If diagnosing tuberculosis in children, particularly those aged under five years, is fraught with problems, health-care workers at different levels
Read MoreChild-friendly, first-line TB combination drugs will be available in 2016: Dr. Mel Spigelman
Dr. Mel Spigelman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) is regarded
Read MoreTB in children
Childhood TB has been neglected for decades, but in the past few years the WHO has begun to realise
Read MoreSecond-line TB drugs: ‘It is more difficult to assess adverse effects in children’
Prof. H. Simon Schaaf, a clinical researcher from the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences,
Read MoreMalnourished children in India below three years are underdosed for first-line TB drugs
“The ultimate goal of evidence-based drug treatment is to produce a desired pharmacological response in a predictable manner and also
Read MoreEditorial: Missing TB cases in India
Although tuberculosis killed 1.3 million people across the globe in 2012 and nearly 8.6 million developed the disease, the world
Read MoreWhy the true burden of paediatric TB remains unknown
“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t
Read MorePaediatric TB: should Xpert molecular test replace smear microscopy?
Unlike adults, children under five years of age are particularly vulnerable to getting infected with TB and may develop the
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