WHO recommendations on MDR-TB 2016 supriya kashyap kashyap14 May 2016 3:17 PM ISTGeneva : New WHO recommendations aim to speed up detection and improve treatment outcomes for multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) through use of...
WHO MDR TB guideline update Meghna Singhania1 Aug 2016 6:30 PM ISTMulti-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, MDR TB is slowly becoming a threat in our country, to the general public as well as a reason of the failure of the...
India has 23 percent of active TB patients in the world- Study Noha27 Oct 2016 3:01 PM ISTIndia has 23% of the global burden of active tuberculosis (TB) patients and 27% of the world’s “missing” patients, which includes those who may not...
Recurrent Conjunctivitis which ultimately turned out to be MDR-TB Anjali Nimesh Nimesh27 Sept 2017 9:30 AM ISTA 15yr old girl from Nerul was experiencing discomfort and non-resolving severe red eyes for over 15 days. Two months prior to this, she had...
Concurrent HIV and MDR-tuberculosis treatment leads to better cure rate,survival Anjali Nimesh Nimesh19 April 2018 7:10 PM ISTDr.Neel R. Gandhi, MD, associate professor at the Emory Rollins School of Public Health and the Emory School of Medicine and associates have found in...
Relapse-free cure from MDR-TB higher than anticipated Vinay Singh singh6 Sept 2018 7:28 PM ISTIn a study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, reports that the frequency of relapse-free cure from...
Clinical trial supports shorter regimen for multidrug-resistant TB: NEJM Medha Baranwal Baranwal22 March 2019 8:28 PM ISTA Clinical trial, STREAM Trial has released data that supports a shorter regimen for multidrug-resistant TB.The WHO guidelines of 2011 have...
Management of tuberculosis in HIV patients: British HIV Association Guideline Medha Baranwal Baranwal10 Jun 2019 7:00 PM ISTThe British HIV Association has released an updated guideline for the management of tuberculosis (TB) in patients with human immunodeficiency virus...
FDA approves new drug for Pulmonary Multidrug-Resistant TB in children Deepanjana Sarkar13 Aug 2019 7:28 PM ISTFDA has approved a new drug for Pulmonary Multidrug-Resistant TB in children.The drug regulatory body, U.S Food and Drug Administration has recently...
Bedaquiline based regimen bests delamanid-based regimen in MDR TB: Study Medha Baranwal Baranwal10 Dec 2019 7:28 PM ISTUSA: Drug-resistant TB is caused by TB bacteria that are resistant to at least one first-line anti-TB drug. Multidrug-resistant TB is resistant to...
Use of Delamanid in Drug resistant TB in India-RNTCP 2018 guideline Medha Baranwal Baranwal29 Dec 2018 7:00 PM ISTThe Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India under the aegis of the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) has developed a...
