The film highlights the contributions of five pivotal figures in the field of medicine known as Health Heroes. Anthony Von ...

It wasn’t until the late 1800s — after physician Robert Koch proved that anthrax was ... and made the revolutionary discovery that bacteria released in sneezes could linger in the air of ...

Indeed, the pathogen seems like ancient history — but as recent developments indicate, tuberculosis isn’t done with us yet.

Mammalian hosts coordinate various cell death pathways as part of the immune defense system against pathogens including ...

Tuberculosis may seem like a disease of the ... But nothing did more to diminish the threat of TB than antibiotics. Penicillin was discovered in 1928 and refined and mass-produced over the next ...

A new vaccine that boosts immunity against tuberculosis (TB) has been shown to be effective in pioneering pre-clinical trials ...

A new vaccine that boosts immunity against tuberculosis (TB) has been shown to be effective in pioneering pre-clinical trials.

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The tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh has been found for the first time since Tutankhamun was discovered in 1922. In what has been dubbed a "remarkable discovery", the tomb of Thutmose II, the last ...

It was originally written in 1918 but recently discovered and now published in The New Yorker for the first time. Jay Parini is a poet, novelist and Robert Frost biographer. He wrote about the ...