Union health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday inaugurated a new non-invasive rapid diagnostic kit for screening kala-azar patients. It requires sample of urine or oral fluid which is collected ...

In 2005, the state government had targeted to eliminate kala-azar by 2010, later extended to 2015. RMRIMS director Pradeep Das said: “Earlier, suspected patients were hesitant in giving blood for ...

A study in rural Kenya shows a rapid diagnostic test could correctly identify 89.3 per cent of those with Kala-azar. Skip to content Bringing science & development together through news & analysis ...

The first rapid blood test for kala-azar, a form of the parasitic disease leishmaniasis, was launched last week in India. Skip to content Bringing science & development together through news & ...

The Centre on Tuesday unveiled a kala-azar rapid diagnosis kit as part of its strategy to combat the disease which predominantly strike Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and the eastern part of Uttar ...

Indian scientists have developed a cheap, easy and ultra-sensitive blood-based strip test for kala-azar or visceral leishmaniasis (VL), the second-largest parasitic killer in the world after ...

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Kala azar is a classic “neglected disease”; about 500,000 suffer from it at any time, scientists estimate. Treatment once meant a month of intravenous medicines based on the metal antimony, which ...

Indian scientists have developed a cheap, easy and ultra-sensitive blood-based strip test for kala-azar or visceral leishmaniasis (Vl), the second largest parasitic killer in the world after ...

Kala azar is a classic “neglected disease”; about 500,000 suffer from it at any time, scientists estimate. Treatment once meant a month of intravenous medicines based on the metal antimony ...

A four-year test of drugs to treat a widespread parasitic disease called kala azar was announced on Monday by the governments of India and Bangladesh, Doctors Without Borders, the Drugs for ...