Islamabad, April 9 – Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the deadliest diseases in Pakistan, claiming tens of thousands of lives each year. With over 1,800 new cases reported daily and approximately 140 deaths each day, a report states that Pakistan's current response to the disease is inadequate...
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Mumbai, April 9 NCP (SP) leader Jayant Patil wrote to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday, opposing the proposed sale of the seed strain of DPT (Diphtheria, Pertussis, and Tetanus) vaccines to a private firm.The state-run Haffkine Bio-Pharmaceutical Corporation can produce...
New Delhi, April 2 – Tuberculosis is one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, and now, a team of scientists has discovered a fundamental flaw in a long-standing model of how bacteria control gene expression. This finding could form the basis for innovative strategies to combat...
New Delhi, March 25 Antibiotic-resistant typhoid infections accounted for at least 87 per cent of India's disease-related economic burden in 2023, according to a study in The Lancet Regional Health Southeast Asia.The total economic burden due to typhoid fever was estimated at ₹123 billion...
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New Delhi, February 19 Age could be a major factor in influencing antibody production in response to a virus – for a given virus, certain antibodies increase with age while others decrease, depending on which part of the virus is targeted, researchers have found.The team, including researchers...
New York, February 19 – Jay Bhattacharya, a physician and economist, is taking over the leadership of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as the acting director of the world’s leading medical research organization.Bhattacharya, who now heads the National Institutes of Health...
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New Delhi, February 10 People with obesity are 70 per cent more likely to be hospitalised or die from infectious diseases, including flu, COVID-19, and pneumonia, according to a study published in The Lancet journal.In 2023, obesity was linked to one in ten global deaths related to infections...