In the early 20th century, these Black nurses came to New York City from the Jim Crow South to join the fight against the disease—and they ultimately helped find a cure.

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A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...

The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests ...

Slashing tuberculosis aid could endanger millions of lives abroad, health authorities say, with potential consequences for ...

Tuberculosis has stalked humanity for as nearly as long as we've been on earth. In this article, we take a look at how UCSF ...

Experts called for extending the period of government assistance, currently six months, to a year saying that's how long it ...

Debates over tuberculosis reporting began in the late 19th century, when the bacterial infection was reframed not as a disease of the elite but of the urban poor. New York City was the first in the ...

Masesi Ndlovu has been living with TB for two years and relapsed recently due to smoking. Read more about her story here.

Latent tuberculosis infection-positivity is common among patients with systemic vasculitis and is associated with BD and smoking history.