Early diagnosis and treatment of active Tuberculosis is utmost priority, but identifying the latent TB, especially among the ...

Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years ...

Actually getting treatment is key: The World Health Organization (WHO) says that for two-thirds of TB patients who don't get ...

TB is an infectious disease caused by bacteria that most often affects the lungs. World Tuberculosis Day aims to raise ...

March 18 is World Tuberculosis Day. Let’s do a quick overview of TB, and discuss the different types of TB, risk factors, ...

Tuberculosis continues to cause a substantial amount of morbidity globally, with nearly 11 million people having active tuberculosis in 2023.1 Success rates for tuberculosis treatment have improved ...

As per a recently published Lancet Global Health paper, at least half a million deaths could be prevented between 2023 and ...

With one of the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in US history, Kansas has more to worry about than its recent Super Bowl ...

M. tuberculosis explodes outward, and active disease begins. Certain triggers make the disease more likely to go from latent to active, including air pollution and an immune system weakened by ...

In a new book, author John Green writes about visiting a tuberculosis hospital in Sierra Leone, where he met a TB patient not ...

TB was also known as consumption for the same reason. Similarly, it was called the white plague or white death – due to ...