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BCG vaccine can protect against Covid, new report finds

The report suggests that the BCG tuberculosis vaccine can significantly strengthen the immune system

The Independent UK

East Lothian urban explorers find creepy doll with bleeding eyes in abandoned hospital

East Fortune hospital closed in 1997 but was once used to treat tuberculosis patients. The inside of the abandoned building…

Edinburgh Live

Terrifying doll with bleeding eyes found inside abandoned Scots hospital

Until the Second World War, the hopsital was a tuberculosis sanatorium for patients in the south east region of Scotland

Daily Record

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Rich countries put billions into global Covid responses. Low-income countries wish they could spend it on bigger problems.

Those who work on AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other plagues say progress is in danger of reversing.

Politico

‘Without Find and Treat I wouldn’t be here’: the NHS service caring for London’s vulnerable

On the streets of the capital with the doctors, nurses and outreach workers administering care to at-risk populations. Photographs by…

The Guardian - UK

Healthy nurse dies 24 hours after diagnosis - leaving family heartbroken

Carrianne Franks was hospitalised for nine weeks with a unknown illness, before doctors identified it as tuberculosis just hours before…

Daily Record

Healthy Nottinghamshire nurse found out she had tuberculosis less than 24 hours before she died

Family were not able to say goodbye

Nottingham Post

It's getting harder for scientists to collaborate across borders – that's bad when the world faces global problems like pandemics and climate change

The United Nations and many researchers have emphasized the critical role international collaborative science plays in solving global challenges like…

The Conversation

Funding the fight against NCDs

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, lung disease, diabetes, obesity and mental disorders, are often chronic and develop…

Bangkok Post

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ICMR-NIRT to evaluate benefit of shorter TB-treatment regime

It will evaluate the efficacy of a four-month daily regimen for tuberculosis treatment using Moxifloxacin

The Hindu

COVID-19 triggered stigma, discrimination may keep testing rate low: study

‘Education and need for psychosocial intervention to deal with the negative impact of the stigma on individuals and families affected…

The Hindu

ICMR to begin study to evaluate BCG booster dose for kids, adolescents

This study will demonstrate the effect of BCG revaccination in comparison to oral chemoprophylaxis on the incidence of mycobacterium tuberculosis…

Livemint

Healthy nurse, 30, dies of tuberculosis 24 hours after tragic final texts to mum

Sgt Carrianne Franks feared she'd die as the disease was ravaging her body. The 30-year-old was diagnosed with TB in…

Daily Mirror

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Large tuberculosis cluster emerges in Singapore

Singapore has imposed mandatory screening for tuberculosis in an apartment block after about 170 people tested positive for the infectious…

Bangkok Post

Tuberculosis warning symptoms as one person dies from TB and three others infected

Here is everything you need to know about TB and its symptoms.

Daily Record

Former PMs urge government to increase spending on infectious diseases after Covid setbacks

Gordon Brown and David Cameron among 15 former world leaders demanding proper response to ‘reclaim the lost gains from Covid-19’…

The Independent UK

Three people diagnosed with tuberculosis after student dies of disease at Welsh university

Three people have been diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) after coming into close contact with a student who died of the…

Evening Standard

Health warning: One person dies from TB as three others infected in UK outbreak

Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection spread through inhaling tiny droplets from the coughs or sneezes of an infected person and…

Daily Mirror

Community involvement aiding battle against TB in Assam

Government sets goal of reducing tuberculosis infection rate from 217 per lakh in 2015 to 44 per lakh by 2025

The Hindu

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Inhaled vaccine for COVID-19: The pandemic accelerated decades of research leading to jab-free vaccine now in human testing

No one wanted COVID-19. The pandemic has created misery, death and hardship, and it isn’t finished yet.

The Conversation

Canadian Arctic tuberculosis outbreak lays bare overcrowded living conditions

Officials in Nunavut say there are 31 cases of active tuberculosis in the hamlet of Pangnirtung, a community of 1,500

The Guardian - US

EMPE to set up TB testing kits facility

Hyderabad: Sweden-headquartered EMPE Diagnostics plans to invest Euro 25 million (approximately 208 crore) in setting up its global production facility…

The Times of India

Creepy abandoned hospital near Edinburgh filmed by urban explorer

The East Fortune Hospital was closed for good in 1997, after serving a psychiatric hospital and a tuberculosis ward -…

Edinburgh Live

Davos booster for $18 billion fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria

A global health fund has raised a third of the $18 billion it says is needed to reverse setbacks caused…

Reuters

Govt shifts focus as covid cases stay low

The government is recalibrating its public health strategy to focus on eliminating leprosy, cataract and tuberculosis

Livemint