How the young brigade mapped the TB genome
Published in The Hindu on April 15, 2010 When nearly 400 motivated students, with the help of a few faculty and scientists, get together voluntarily and work single-mindedly, solving any…
Category: Tuberculosis
Smoking raises the risk of developing TB disease: study
Published in The Hindu on August 24, 2009 Several studies have shown that smoking is a risk factor for developing the tuberculosis disease (TB). But there was no large-scale study…
India’s TB treatment strategy stands vindicated
Published in The Hindu on September 17, 2009 Research based on a study commissioned by the World Health Organisation (WHO), and published online in the Open Access journal PLoS Medicine,…
Treating TB, AIDS co-infection
Published in The Hindu on May 21, 2009 The Phase IV trial started in June 2006 to treat patients simultaneously for both TB and HIV has returned some important results.…
Evaluating a new MDR-TB test
Published in The Hindu on July 3, 2008 If patients failing to complete the treatment, and wrong medication by the medical practitioners often leads to drug resistance in TB patients,…
Editorial: Proceed with caution
Published in The Hindu on June 20, 2008 Eight years after starting the programme of providing single-dose nevirapine to cut mother-to-child transmission of HIV, the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO)…
Testing for tuberculosis, HIV co-infection
Published in The Hindu on May 22, 2008 A programme to routinely test patients infected with HIV for TB and vice versa has taken off in Tamil Nadu from January…
Editorial: No time to lose
Published in The Hindu on march 20, 2008 If globally containing tuberculosis, the incidence of which is estimated to be growing at one per cent a year, is proving to…
