Now, as the Trump administration decimates foreign-aid programs, the U.S. is both making survival less likely for people with ...

Consumption, phthisis, the white plague—a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ...

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

Three all-oral 9-month treatments for drug-resistant tuberculosis were found to be noninferior to standard treatment. Just two in five people with resistant TB receive treatment for the infection.

The alarming rise in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) among children has sparked serious concerns in the global healthcare community. Recent research, leveraging data from the Global ...

Tuberculosis, the world’s oldest and deadliest pandemic, has been plaguing us for well over 4,000 years, with a relative of TB bacteria detected since the dinosaur age, and an ancestor having ...

There was no testing, no diagnoses, no treatment. What happens when TB treatment stops? Drug resistant strains develop. TB is a major contributor to the growing antimicrobial resistance problem. Drug ...

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

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 ...