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

Puducherry has become the first in the country to screen tuberculosis (TB) patients under the Family Adoption Programme, or ...

Tuberculosis has passed Covid as the top infectious disease killer, despite new medicines and better diagnostic tools. Gifty Gyan, who was diagnosed with tuberculosis in June, was weighed at the ...

What is TB? 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 ...

A new study by University of Bath scientists has highlighted two new potential families of drug molecules that could open the ...

Usually, TB infects the lungs — that’s pulmonary TB. But Mycobacterium tuberculosis can infect the liver, bones, spinal cord, brain, urinary tract, bladder, kidneys, ...

Tuberculosis is the leading infectious cause of death around the world, outpaced only by COVID-19 during the first three years of the pandemic. Reports of TB date back to the time of Hippocrates ...

Nunavut’s health department has declared an end to tuberculosis outbreaks in Pangnirtung and Pond Inlet. Arviat and Naujaat ...

According to the CDC, tuberculosis (TB) is a disease cause by germs that are spread from person to person through the air.

The 2024 Global Tuberculosis Report, published last week by the World Health Organization, puts TB back in the top slot with 1.25 million deaths in 2023 compared to 320,000 COVID-19 deaths.

Tuberculosis linked to contaminated bone graft material has killed one person and infected at least four others — the second TB outbreak involving Aziyo Biologics.

How money is helping people avoid and fight TB. Tuberculosis is famously a disease of poverty. People are exposed to the bacteria that causes TB in overcrowded, under ventilated spaces.