In 2023, tuberculosis (TB) killed about 1.25 million people worldwide, more than any other infectious disease on Earth — even though it is curable. Months- or even years-long regimens of potent ...

Cases of a Victorian-era lung disease continue to rise in England and experts warn its growing resistance to antibiotics is a ...

TB can occur in the stomach as well as in the lungs. It occurs due to the spread of bacteria of lung TB. According to ...

In a lab in the heart of Boston, professor Bree Aldridge leads a team of researchers trying to understand a threat that is ...

The Xpert MTB/Ultra molecular diagnostic test for stool samples, until now recommended only for children, could be ...

A new study has identified a potential new therapy for pulmonary tuberculosis that could shorten the length of treatment and ...

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 is a "near-perfect predator," John Green said in his book "Everything is Tuberculosis." The bacterial infection, caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis, mostly affects the ...

The field is being taken over by hostile forces. To fight, it must dedicate itself to something larger than saving lives at ...

TB is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a type of bacterial species. In early stages, infected lung cells limit spread through apoptosis, a natural and tightly regulated molecular process that ...

In a Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study, the addition of navitoclax to the standard TB treatment significantly increased ...

TB is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a type of bacterial species. In early stages, infected lung cells limit spread through apoptosis, a natural and tightly regulated molecular process that ...