A new study in "Nature Medicine" estimates 2 million people are incorrectly told they have TB each year — and clinicians miss ...

When most of us think of serious diseases that kill millions of people, the ones that come to mind are often the ones that get the most attention: cancer, COVID-19, heart disease and diabetes. But a ...

"As long as you breathe, you are at risk anywhere in the world," says physician Lucicia Ditiu. The risk she's referring to is catching tuberculosis. While it may seem like a disease from the past, ...

Many people with tuberculosis stay in the latent infection stage, but some develop the active disease. Both stages are treatable. Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that usually affects the ...

Researchers headed by a team at Pitt University, in collaboration with scientists at Cornell University, have developed a self-destructing, intravenous (i.v.) Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine ...

Vietnamese doctor Truong Duc Thai and a colleague check the X-ray film of a drug-resistant tuberculosis patient at National Lung Hospital in Hanoi. TB kills more people than any other infectious ...