In 2023, after a brief hiatus, tuberculosis regained from COVID its status as the world’s deadliest infectious disease—a ...

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

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

Tuberculosis lives and thrives in the lungs. When the bacteria that cause the disease are coughed into the air, they are ...

In the early 20th century, these Black nurses came to New York City from the Jim Crow South to join the fight against the ...

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 ...

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

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

Tuberculosis primarily affects the lungs but can also target other body parts such as the spine, brain, and kidneys. It is mainly transmitted through airborne particles when an infected person ...