About 1.25 million people died of TB last year, the new report said, adding that TB likely returned to being the world's top infectious disease killer after being replaced by COVID-19 during the ...

LONDON (AP) — More than 8 million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, the highest number recorded since the U.N. health agency began ...

Differentiated TB care involves tailoring services to individual needs of patients. Researchers pitch it as a model that can ...

A nationwide study found that TB history did not elevate long-term cancer risk among individuals living with HIV.

Tulane University researchers have developed a new handheld TB test that significantly improves detection in people with HIV, ...

The drugs, sutezolid and delpazolid, have demonstrated strong antimicrobial activity and a notably better safety profile compared to linezolid, with potential to replace this current cornerstone in ...

Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that infects nearly 11 million people worldwide, killing some 1.25 million of them every year, per data from the World Health Organization.. A person infected ...

But detection of latent TB is challenging, especially in people with HIV. In a previous Swiss analysis, a combined approach using interferon gamma release assays (IGRA) and tuberculin skin tests ...

He isolated rod-shaped bacteria from sputum coughed up by people with TB. Koch’s discovery of M. tuberculosis soon persuaded the medical world that the disease was infectious rather than hereditary.

A simple five-question triage tool — without the need for any laboratory tests — may be the key to saving lives of people ...

In Gabú, Guinea-Bissau, a grandmother named N'beta hesitated. Her six-month-old grandson, Seco, was healthy, so why give him medicine? But community health workers Jamilia and Amadu gently explained ...

LONDON (AP) — More than 8 million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, the highest number recorded since the U.N. health agency began keeping ...