Tuberculosis is prevalent in the US, but it's both preventable and curable. Early detection and treatment plans have helped limit further disease transmission in the US. However, we've seen ...

the author commented that perhaps a cure could be discovered as quickly as the cure for tuberculosis was found at Sea View Hospital on Staten Island in the 1950s. Smilios began researching and learned ...

Vitamin D supplementation during TB treatment improves patient symptoms, but does not accelerate the clearance of TB bacteria.

"It's fully treatable, it's just a long treatment to take care of it," he said. Tuberculosis is often spread through coughing and singing and can spread in big indoor group gatherings like ...

The goal was to improve treatment for patients with tuberculosis resistant to rifampin which sickens about 410,000 people each year. Only 40 percent are diagnosed and treated, 65 percent of them ...

Making things even more complicated is that the form of tuberculosis circulating right now appears to be resistant to two common treatment methods for the disease. Unfortunately, officials from ...

The treatments, which include recently discovered TB drugs, give new options for shorter, personalized treatment and are cleared for use for more people than ever. Tuberculosis remains one of the ...

The goal was to improve treatment for patients with tuberculosis resistant to rifampin. The WHO estimates that some 410,000 people become sick with rifampin-resistant TB each year, including ...

Making things even more complicated is that the form of tuberculosis circulating right now appears to be resistant to two common treatment methods for the disease. Unfortunately, officials from ...

Now, in a major step forward, an international clinical trial has found three new safe and effective drug regimens for tuberculosis that is resistant to rifampin, the most effective of the first-line ...

These numbers hide latent infections that the body controls but don’t show symptoms of active tuberculosis. Without treatment, latent tuberculosis can result in active cases in the future.