Picture coming home from traveling the world for six months to find out the cough you couldn’t kick was active tuberculosis (TB). Or imagine finding out your senior year of high school that you’ve ...

Two strains of the bacterium causing tuberculosis have only minor genetic differences but attack the lungs in completely different fashion, according to researchers. Two strains of the bacterium ...

Tuberculosis has plagued humanity for thousands of years, and despite medical advances that can now help us prevent and cure ...

An important step has been made toward a substantially faster and more effective treatment for tuberculosis, which infects some 10 million people and causes 1.5 million deaths each year. Researchers ...

A new study published in Nature Communications provides an important new basis for comparing the effectiveness of different tuberculosis treatments. Tuberculosis, a disease caused by the bacterium ...

Scientists at UCLA and Shanghai Jiao Tong University say they have made an important step toward a substantially faster and more effective treatment for tuberculosis, which infects some 10 million ...

Commentator Pius Kamau believes that Andrew Speaker is fortunate to be able to get that treatment for tuberculosis. Pius Kamau is a doctor practicing in the U.S. He grew up in Africa, where ...