The board's plan aims to increase the capacity for handling patients and also find ways to bolster its response to the ...

Your healthcare provider may also recommend a TB test — either a blood test or a skin test. For the skin test, you will need ...

After The Times published an interview with John Green about his new book on tuberculosis, many readers wrote to share their ...

In Germany, it is often overlooked that diseases once thought to be defeated, like tuberculosis, still exist and that the ...

A multicountry pooled analysis shows that treatment success rates for extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis are extremely ...

The potential for thousands of new deaths from TB is not worth the less than 1% in federal savings that came from cutting ...

Tuberculosis is a very ancient scourge, well known in the Greco-Roman world, where it was called as ‘phthisis’ (‘tabes’ in Rome) or ‘consumption’. 3 At that time, this condition was ...

The vision of the End TB strategy of the World Health Organization (WHO) is of a world free of tuberculosis by the year 2035. 1 However, extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (i.e ...

It is tuberculosis, the biggest infectious-disease killer worldwide, claiming 1.5 million lives each year. Until this year, TB and its deadly allies, H.I.V. and malaria, were on the run.

One fourth of the world’s population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis. 1 From a clinical-management perspective, two states of M. tuberculosis ...

DeKalb County has the highest rate of tuberculosis cases in Georgia. Next week, it’s opening a new clinic to help test for the disease and treat it. The clinic at the county’s Richardson Health Center ...