Tuberculosis is both curable and preventable, yet each year, it still kills more people than any other infectious disease. One reason is that current treatments hinge on rifampicin, an antibiotic that ...

San Diego County health officials sounded the alarm on Thursday, warning that anyone who set foot on the Southwestern ...

A long-term study shows MDR-TB treatment success is underestimated, with most patients remaining relapse-free, highlighting ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Levels of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in China are nearly twice the global average and almost 10 percent of cases are resistant to the most effective first-line drugs, a ...

San Diego County health officials are in the middle of a tightly focused tuberculosis investigation at Southwestern College, ...

Tuberculosis remains a public health issue in Europe as the region is falling behind elimination targets, according to a new report by the World Health Organization and the European Centre for Disease ...

They're being warned that "people may be sick for months before receiving a diagnosis, which can lengthen exposure periods" ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the world’s leading cause of death from a single infectious agent, affecting more than 10 million people each year and caused and estimated 1.25 million deaths in 2023. 1,2 While ...

Tuberculosis (TB), one of the leading infectious disease killers worldwide, has long posed a challenge, particularly with the rise of drug-resistant forms. However, new research offers fresh hope in ...

An international research team headed by scientists at the University of British Columbia has demonstrated how a novel semi-synthetic compound derived from sanguinarine (SG), an alkaloid extracted ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted marketing approval to Cepheid's tuberculosis test that checks if the disease-causing bacteria carry antibiotic-resistant genetic markers. The ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns of a “ticking time bomb” as tuberculosis is getting increasingly resistant to antibiotics. According to the WHO, almost 500,000 people have a type of TB that ...