Here's what tuberculosis is, how it's transmitted and how you can expect to have it treated if it affects you or someone you love.

March 24, 2025, was set aside by the World Health Organisation as World Tuberculosis Day to commemorate the day in 1882 when one of the true giants of early medicine, Dr Robert Koch, announced his ...

An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) treatments by helping infected cells die a gentler death, investigators ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that kills more than a million people worldwide every year. The pathogen that causes the disease, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is deadly in part because of ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state health department has mapped 81.6 lakh individuals at high risk of tuberculosis (TB) as it ...

In fact, the disease is so prevalent that the organization has identified tuberculosis as one of the top 10 leading causes of deaths worldwide. "Since its identification in 1882, over 1 billion ...

In contrast, later-stage TB infections cause uncontrolled necrosis ... Ph.D., the study's first author and a pediatric infectious diseases fellow in the school of medicine, promoting necrotic ...

An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) treatments by helping infected cells die a gentler death, Johns Hopkins ...

The drugs cause sometimes painful side effects ... Another person Madhvani infected had latent TB, but no disease yet. Doctors put him on medication to stave off illness, but he stopped taking ...