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 is a disease that most commonly causes an infection of the lungs. (Photo: Getty Images) With cases of tuberculosis (TB) cropping up at schools in different parts of the country — ...

It’s been discovered that a new tool using routine blood tests and a simple online app could help detect tuberculosis (TB) ...

A new tiny robot could help identify drug-resistant tuberculosis more efficiently. Scientists from Brock University in Canada have improved a microscopic robot they created in 2016 to help solve this ...

A new TB drug, sorfequiline, shows promising results in a multinational trial, raising hopes for faster and simpler treatment ...

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 ...

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 ...