India, July 15 -- India has the highest number of tuberculosis cases in the world resulting in a huge number of deaths. Discontinuation of the medication's regimen is one of the reasons for the spurt in the number of patients. Now researchers in the US and India are collaborating to create an innovative device to help treat the disease where this problem could be solved, reports SPAN writer Michael Gallant

Dangerous and highly contagious, tuberculosis (TB) has plagued humanity for thousands of years. Although tests and treatments exist to fight TB, it continues to kill hundreds of thousands of people in India, and over one million around the world, each year.

India has "the highest burden of TB disease in the world," says Upasna Agarwal...