Tuberculosis infections are increasingly common in the United States following the pandemic, preliminary data shows.

Conventional TB diagnosis takes 4-6 weeks [8], causing unacceptable delays. Moreover, DOTS requires patients to collect ...

I came across Ravi (Name Changed), a 35-year-old an entrepreneur, who had been persistently coughing for months. Initially ...

All of a sudden one day it was gone,” he remembers. ...

During medical school, I came across a professor who introduced me to research—up until that point, I was content with being ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that usually affects the lungs but can spread to other parts of the body, including the skin. Once it reaches the skin, TB can cause a variety of lesions ...

U.S.A.I.D. Global Health The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests or drugs, and risk spreading the disease.

The World Health Organization warned last week that the sweeping funding cuts could endanger millions of lives, since many countries depend on foreign aid for TB prevention, testing and treatment.

Marcela Henao-Tamayo receives funding from NIAID, NIH and OEDIT. An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...

Over the past two decades, global TB programmes have saved more than 79 million lives, averting approximately 3.65 million deaths last year alone. A significant portion of this success has been driven ...

Disagreements were more frequent for the detection of pleural effusions (−0.08 - 0.73). Conclusion: The inter-observer agreement varies with the type of lesions and diagnosis. Pneumologists were most ...

Consumption, phthisis, the white plague – a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ice age. Today, the disease – passed from those who are actively sick to ...