An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...

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

Study by MIT and others identifies genes essential for tuberculosis bacterium’s survival during airborne transmission.

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

Scientists discovered genes in the tuberculosis bacterium that becomes essential for the pathogen's survival when it's exposed to air through coughing. These genes could be targets for new therapies ...

Tuberculosis bacteria rely on a family of genes that help them survive the challenging journey from one person’s lungs to another person’s during coughing, sneezing or talking, according to ...

explains UCSF Center for TB’s Adithya Cattamanchi, MD. Cattamanchi is also UC Irvine’s division chief of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine. TB can be a debilitating illness: The longer it ...

The WHO warned Wednesday that massive funding cuts, especially from the United States, could harm humanitarian efforts ...

WHO warns of a potential global surge in tuberculosis cases due to USAID funding cuts risking millions of lives Learn how ...

Priority areas for lung research include more effective screening and diagnostic tests, new treatment options, interventions ...

A person in Manchester has been diagnosed with tuberculosis, New Hampshire health officials said Thursday. The person was ...