Without a correct diagnosis and treatment, tuberculosis can sometimes be a serious, potentially life threatening infection. However, with the right steps, it is curable. Tuberculosis (TB) is a ...

Tuberculosis (TB) may last for several months, with treatment. The length of time it takes to cure the condition can vary. It may depend on whether the TB is latent or active. Tuberculosis (TB) is a ...

UB researchers have developed a new inhalable form of tuberculosis (TB) treatment that could significantly reduce the burden ...

As the United States retreats from global health leadership—withdrawing from the World Health Organization, dismantling USAID—public health experts warn that there will be implications for the spread ...

TB can be cured, but ridding the body of the bug often takes many months and usually requires taking four or more medicines. In this special briefing, Spotlight zooms in on what makes the TB bacterium ...

Consumption, phthisis, the white plague – a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ice age. Today, the disease – passed from those who are actively sick to ...

In the wake of a recent outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) and latent TB cases at a local San Francisco high school, IGHS's Priya ...

Dr. Kayvan Zainabadi (center) is working with colleagues in Pune, India, to test the RNA-based TB diagnostic he is developing. From left: Dr. Mandar Paradkar (co-PI, pediatrician), Vidyulata Kamble, ...

The answer is tuberculosis. And it kills more than 3,400 people across the globe every day—nearly 1.3 million in 2023 alone—and that number is rising fast. Without treatment, tuberculosis (TB) ...

I knew of John Green from his excellent teen novels "The Fault in Our Stars," "Looking for Alaska" and "Turtles All the Way Down." When I heard he had written "Everything is Tuberculosis: The History ...