Cellphone-like device to collect blood samples The Times Of India ALLAHABAD: At the time when various governments are trying to bring down the diagnostic cost of disease like TB (tuberculosis), a cheap tool is being designed at Prof Dan Fletcher's bioengineering lab at UC Berkeley, US by a team of scientists, including Lina Nelsson. The device is actually a mobile...
Origins of Tambaram Sanatorium The Hindu Tambaram Sanitorium, located six kilometres from Tambaram, derives its name from the Tambaram TB Sanatorium, also known as the Government Hospital of Thoracic Medicine. | The origins of the TB Sanatorium can be traced to 1928, when Muthu, a doctor sp...
Public versus prison healthcare: What are the facts? Mail Guardian South Africa Prisoners in South Africa have access to better healthcare services than the general public, the Deputy Minister of Correctional Services, Thabang Makwetla, recently claimed. | “You find that there is (sic) better medical facilities given from ...
Government admits badger cull could fail to reduce bovine TB The Guardian Controversial cull will continue despite government admitting for the first time that the Gloucestershire cull may prove unsuccessful due to low number of badgers killed | The Gloucestershire killed fewer than half the minimum number of badgers requi...
Increase in life expectancy more in women in India The Hindu A Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 published today (December 18) in the journal The Lancet points out that in the case of India, the life expectancy at birth during the period 1990 to 2013 had increased for both men and women. | In the case of men...
Dementia is third most common cause of death in UK, research finds The Guardian Alzheimer’s Research UK says increased life expectancy means age-related disease is becoming ‘our greatest medical challenge’ | 225,000 people develop dementia every year – the equivalent to one person every three minutes. Photograph: Daisy-D...
Life span shows healthy jump even as lifestyle diseases turn top killers The Times Of India MUMBAI: Every fifth death in the world is that of an Indian, but Indians are also living at least 8.6 years longer on an average than in 1990, one of the best gains worldwide in life expectancy. | In 2013, heart, lung or brain problems caused a third...
Global TB report estimation on Multi Drug Resistant TB in India The Times Of India PUNE: According to Global TB Report 2013, the estimated proportion of new notified TB cases under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) in India that have Multi Drug Resistant TB (MDR-TB) is 2.2 percent (21,000 in numbers) where...
TB tests ordered at Jacksonville school Palm Beach Post Florida health officials have ordered tuberculosis tests on about 150 students and staff members at a Jacksonville high school after a student was hospitalized with the disease recently. | The Florida Department of Health in Duval County has sent stu...
TB tests ordered at Jacksonville school The Miami Herald Florida health officials have ordered tuberculosis tests on about 150 students and staff members at a Jacksonville high school after a student was hospitalized with the disease recently. | The Florida Department of Health in Duval County has sent stu...
Seven breakthroughs that will transform global health The Guardian Which seven pressure points should the global health community focus on to save millions of lives? | Vaccines for HIV/Aids, malaria and tuberculosis could save millions of lives Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images | Shashi Buluswar in Berkeley | W...
