Fresh approach to TB vaccine shows promise Ruby khatun khatun21 Jan 2018 7:20 PM IST A new vaccine against tuberculosis (TB) made using a weakened form of a common Herpes virus, has been found highly effective in rhesus monkeys and is...
WHO’s Surveillance data reveals high levels of antibiotic resistance worldwide Medical Dialogues Bureau31 Jan 2018 7:01 PM ISTIt is not as if Antibiotic Resistance is confined to any particular region or country. It is also independent of Socio-economic status of the...
Low doses of ultraviolet C light kills Flu Viruses without harming human Anjali Nimesh Nimesh9 Feb 2018 7:29 PM ISTDr.David J. Brenner and associates at the Higgins Professor of Radiation Biophysics Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and director of the...
Measles vaccine increases child survival beyond protection against measles Anjali Nimesh Nimesh14 Feb 2018 7:15 PM ISTIn the largest study conducted in Ghana on children it has been found that all-cause mortality is lower when a child's most recent immunization is a...
IDSA 2017 Clinical Practice Guidelines for Diagnosis and treatment of Neurocysticercosis Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli25 Feb 2018 7:01 PM ISTClinical Practice Guidelines,2017 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene...
Disease X may cause serious worldwide pandemic: WHO Anjali Nimesh Nimesh12 March 2018 8:30 PM ISTWorld Health Organization (WHO) has released the list of pathogens to prioritize for research and development in public health emergency contexts.A...
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...
Drugs for Parkinson's disease might be beneficial for TB as well: Study Medha Baranwal Baranwal23 May 2018 7:20 PM ISTThe mechanism used by the immune system for clearance of bacterial infections like tuberculosis (TB) might also be implicated in Parkinson's disease,...
Vit A leads to autophagy, better clearance of the bacteria to control TB Hina Zahid15 Jun 2018 7:05 PM ISTScientists at Trinity College Dublin and St James's Hospital, Dublin, have discovered how vitamin A drives the lung immune system to deal with...
Only 3-month course safe, effective and patient compliant in latent Tuberculosis Vinay Singh singh21 Jun 2018 8:28 PM ISTShort course regimen of 3-month isoniazid-rifapentine can be administered by directly observed therapy(DOT) for latent tuberculosis infection(LTBI)...
Success of Tuberculosis therapy linked to vitamin D supplementation Vinay Singh singh17 July 2018 8:20 PM ISTAccording to a new study,Vitamin D supplementation as adjunctive therapy may be considered a cost-effective strategy in treating patients with...
Indian Scientists move forward towards developing TB vaccine Hina Zahid31 July 2018 7:25 PM ISTScientists help pave the way for a vaccine against TBSunderarajan PadmanabhanThe scope for developing a new vaccine against Tuberculosis through the...
