New drugs that target 'zombie' tuberculosis (TB) cells are now a step closer, thanks to a new study led by the University of ...

While tuberculosis (TB) is manageable, a past infection, especially genital or pelvic TB, is known to take a toll on one's reproductive health. Understanding its impact on fertility can help one to ...

Children in defined risk groups are offered the vaccine at the age of six weeks. The vaccine contains live, weakened tuberculosis bacteria, Bacille Calmette Guérin, and is called BCG. The vaccine is ...

Additional nurse-led palliative care for patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis improved self-reported outcomes spanning physical, psychological, social, and spiritual domains, and increased ...

Tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest disease, could be America’s next outbreak by Lyndon Haviland, opinion contributor - 04/30/25 1:30 PM ET ...

Conclusion Patients with pulmonary TB with no BCG scar and high initial AFB sputum intensity are at risk of remaining sputum culture positive at the end of the second month of anti-TB treatment. These ...

Tuberculosis, also known as TB, is a bacterial infection that primarily affects a person's lungs. Its symptoms vary widely depending on how the slow-growing mycobacterium that causes the infection ...

Worldwide, tuberculosis remains a major public health crisis — especially since some forms of the disease are now resistant to drugs. The World Health Organization reported that 1.25 million ...

Everything Is Tuberculosis John Green Crash Course Books, $28 A few years ago, renowned author John Green met a boy named Henry at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. Henry was small and ...

Last week he reported at a meeting of the New York Tuberculosis and Health Association that on 1,200 serum samples from 950 patients the test was 92.3% accurate.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a near-perfect predator. In 1882, Robert Koch, the physician who discovered the microbe, told a room full of scientists that it caused one in seven of all deaths. In ...