Tuberculosis – the world’s deadliest infectious disease – could be dormant in your system for years before you realize you ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains the world's leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. A new study recently published ...

Directly observed therapy — where a health professional watches someone take a medication — has been the standard of care for tuberculosis treatment in the United States since 2016. Now DOT, as it’s ...

In the highest tally ever recorded for tuberculosis cases, the World Health Organization reported Tuesday that over 8 million people worldwide were diagnosed with the lung disease last year. Of that ...

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 ...

Three people in Maine have been infected with active tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest disease, according to health officials who raised alarms Friday. There was no connection between the three ...

The DOT policy for tuberculosis patients in Texas is a comprehensive program that includes medical services related to TB and delivery of medication to a patient-chosen location at no cost to the ...

A man lies unmoving, slumped in the rubble of a simulated earthquake, as an unlikely rescuer approaches: a rat with a backpack. Whiskers waving, the rat breezes past garbage, toppled furniture and ...

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 ...

It has no current market, not even a prescription price. Its makers stopped commercial production years ago, because demand was so low. But an antibiotic long abandoned as a weak, low-dose treatment ...