Built using pluripotent stem cells, this tiny lung could help push science away from animal testing as well as open the doors ...

"The air sacs in the lungs are a critical first barrier against infections in humans, but we've traditionally looked at them ...

The immune system remains seriously out-of-whack – in an inflammatory state of overactivation and impaired functionality – ...

Reports of TB date back to around 410-400 B.C.E., when the physician Hippocrates termed the disease phthisis, an archaic word that means a progressive “wasting away,” due to the way people with the ...

A grouping of red-colored, rod shaped, Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, which cause tuberculosis, is seen in a microscopic image captured in 2010. Tuberculosis plagued Alaska in the 20th century, ...

Since 2021, Kentucky has had 118 confirmed cases of TB, according to information from Louisville's health department.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about health and U.K. health policy. Although it's often thought of as a disease of the past, tuberculosis is still found ...

The Church of Scotland Hospital in Tugela Ferry, South Africa, sits in an arid valley among the mountains of KwaZulu-Natal. Occupying a dozen or so tin-roofed, low-slung buildings, the hospital serves ...

Just a short time after “Gone With the Wind star” Vivien Leigh appeared at Atlanta’s Loews Grand Theatre for the 1939 premiere of the legendary film, the British actress caught tuberculosis on a trip ...

A MUM-of-two has told how her son, who was suffering from the “world’s deadliest infectious disease” was dismissed by medics ...

When people hear about tuberculosis, they tend to assume it's long gone. However, as the most deadly infectious disease on the planet, it's still alive and well. Just this week, a case of TB was ...

When he was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 2016, Georgi, then a worker in his 40s for the municipal water company in Bishkek, knew little about the disease beyond some stereotypes and what he learned ...