In a new book, author John Green writes about visiting a tuberculosis hospital in Sierra Leone, where he met a TB patient not ...

The cure for TB—roughly half a year on antibiotics—has existed since the 1950s, and works for most patients. Yet, in the decades since, more than 100 million people have died of tuberculosis ...

As World Tuberculosis (TB) Awareness Month shines the light on the disease, Masesi Ndlovu’s journey highlights the destructive consequences of smoking and poor living conditions. Ndlovu’s ...

Along with treatment, TB patients also need nutritious food. Therefore, as TB patients are detected and put under treatment, these patients need Nikshay Mitra for nutrition kits. Gandhinagar ...

In many places, TB is still seen as a social stigma, making it difficult for patients to talk about their illness. Also, a team of experts is working on war footing for the 100-day Intensive TB ...

Lucknow: Pradeep Gangwar, deputy nursing superintendent at KGMU, on Monday adopted 51 TB patients at Cantt's Combined Military Hospital, furthering the "TB-Free Lucknow" initiative. Under this ...

Such workers play a critical role in notifying people who test positive for tuberculosis, getting them treatment and screening their close contacts for infection. “Patients may get a diagnosis ...

The aim of this systematic review of qualitative studies was to understand the factors considered important by patients, caregivers and health care providers in contributing to TB medication ...

A survey of HIV health care providers in the US revealed the various approaches that providers took for prescribing antiretroviral therapy (ART ... that included patients with cardiometabolic ...