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 ...

Slashing tuberculosis aid could endanger millions of lives abroad, health authorities say, with potential consequences for ...

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

Shortages of manpower and low expenditure made the implementation of NTEP deficient in the State of Andhra Pradesh, making ...

He's a star of the BioPark, having lived there for decades. Now, Albert the Asian elephant has a new lease on life, after a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...