I think what I've really wanted to do since I was a teenager was work on HIV and TB, and conditions that affected people who ...
March 18 is World Tuberculosis Day. Let’s do a quick overview of TB, and discuss the different types of TB, risk factors, ...
Actually getting treatment is key: The World Health Organization (WHO) says that for two-thirds of TB patients who don't get ...
If generic medicines are not available, treatment will become difficult for low and middle income patients, especially in ...
In 2023, after a brief hiatus, tuberculosis regained from COVID its status as the world’s deadliest infectious disease—a ...
There is a pervasive sense of fear — of losing access to critical health care services and of livelihoods lost,” CFK Africa ...
The infection spreads to the brain or spinal column.” Others “suffer a sudden, uncontrollable hemorrhage, leading to a quick ...
Consumption, phthisis, the white plague—a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ...
Trying to keep a resurgence of tuberculosis cases from exploding into an outbreak, the Vanderburgh County Health Department plans to open a new clinic.
A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...
Reports of TB date back to around 410-400 B.C.E., when the physician Hippocrates termed the disease phthisis, an archaic word that means a progressive “wasting away,” due to the way people with the ...
In the early 20th century, these Black nurses came to New York City from the Jim Crow South to join the fight against the ...