Each year, millions of people in the United States get a tuberculosis skin test to see if they have the infection that still affects one-third of the world’s population. But the standard diagnostic test is difficult to give, because a hypodermic needle must be inserted at a precise angle and depth in the arm to successfully check for tuberculosis.

TUBERCULOSIS (TB) is a disease most people associate with poverty or HIV/AIDS. Not so, says the head of the University of Cape Town’s Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Valerie Mizrahi, who has first-hand experience of just how easily it can sweep through a middle-class family.

In the period from 1 of January to 30 of June 2013 non-commercial partnership "E.V.A" with support of STOP TB Partnership, AIDS healthcare foundation and ITPCru carries out the project "Improving access to treatment for patients with HIV/TB coinfection in Russian Federation".

Heads of State and Government from countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) met on 18 August to discuss the progress made and the challenges that the region is facing regarding HIV, tuberculosis and malaria.

Pharma Major Lupin Limited announced that its U.S. subsidiary, Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (LPI) has received final approval for its Rifampin Capsules USP, 150 mg and 300 mg strengths from the United States Food and Drugs Administration (FDA).

Millions of lives could be saved by new health treatments to combat some of the world’s most debilitating and deadly diseases, following support from the UK government.

Mentors International and Co-Diagnostics HBDC signed an agreement to lower real-time PCR test prices in the developing world, starting with tuberculosis. Under the agreement, Co-Diagnostics HBDC will provide low-cost testing reagents and Mentors International will leverage its international connections to set up low-cost testing facilities. The two organizations plan to start with a pilot program in Guatemala.

CHENNAI: At a time when the medical community is grappling with ways to battle multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, doctors are facing another problem - poor results while treating TB patients over the age of 60.

ALLAHABAD: Even as the Union health ministry has sought notification of each and every tuberculosis (TB) cases reported across the nation, the private hospitals clinics, nursing homes, laboratories and private practitioners are yet to respond to the letters issued by the office of district tuberculosis officer regarding the notification of TB cases across the district.

CHENNAI: The combination of diabetes and tuberculosis doesn't just complicate treatment; the double disease could be as dangerous as having HIV/AIDS with TB. A new study has confirmed that diabetes can make the TB bacteria harder to treat, just as HIV/AIDS does.