She was positioned on her left, and a thoracotomy was done on her right side to gain access to the diseased part of the spine through her chest cavity, retracting her right lung. To minimize blood ...

Health authorities say that the Trump administration’s gutting of USAID raises the risk of a global surge in tuberculosis ...

An ancient disease, tuberculosis has been found in the skulls and spinal cords of Egyptian mummies 3,000 years old. The Greek physician Hippocrates called "consumption" — as tuberculosis was oft ...

MRI of her spine revealed that she had a TB Spine, and her 5th and 6th dorsal spinal vertebrae had collapsed entirely and were severely compressing her spinal cord, threatening to render her ...