India has seen a steep fall in tuberculosis and malaria cases and deaths in the past decade. With this, India has quietly ...

Two hands holding yellow lentils in heart shape to express love (Photo by: FairMail Cards BV/Majority World/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) A new study quantifies the substantial impact of ...

India, April 30 -- "Hello! I'm Deepti Chavan and I am an MDR-TB survivor. I know how it feels to hear the words 'drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB)'. When I heard them, my whole world changed. It can ...

In a recent review published in the Open Forum Infectious Diseases journal, researchers reported on the evolution of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) therapy. Study: At long last: short, ...

Despite global efforts, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in children is rising at an alarming rate, with younger children at the highest risk of mortality—urgent action is needed to reverse the trend.

Worldwide, approximately 2 million children younger than 15 years of age are infected with multidrug-resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis, with MDR tuberculosis developing in approximately ...

Tuberculosis is a deadly disease. Every two minutes one person dies of TB in India. It is a complex disease to control. India's decades long battle against tuberculosis is entering a new phase, with ...

Sydney researchers have found that Levofloxacin substantially reduces risk of drug-resistant tuberculosis. This discovery offers new hope against a disease that infects more than 400,000 people ...