The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests ...

Consumption, phthisis, the white plague—a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...

A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...

WHO warns of a potential global surge in tuberculosis cases due to USAID funding cuts risking millions of lives Learn how ...

The World Health Organization warned last week that the sweeping funding cuts could endanger millions of lives, since many countries depend on foreign aid for TB prevention, testing and treatment.

Chest X-rays are used to identify lung abnormalities, while sputum tests may be conducted for older children to detect TB bacteria. A thorough clinical evaluation, including a detailed medical history ...

Poor treatment adherence remains a major obstacle in national tuberculosis programmes globally. Digital adherence technologies offer novel opportunities to monitor and address poor adherence. Research ...

Latent tuberculosis infection-positivity is common among patients with systemic vasculitis and is associated with BD and smoking history.

Debates over tuberculosis reporting began in the late 19th century, when the bacterial infection was reframed not as a disease of the elite but of the urban poor. New York City was the first in the ...

Kansas faces one of the largest TB outbreaks in US history. TB, an enduring pandemic, thrives in poverty-stricken areas and ...

Payam Nahid, MD, MPH, Executive Director of the UCSF’s Institute for Global Health Sciences For decades, TB treatment was long and painful. Roughly 1 in 8 cases of TB globally are resistant to ...