While tuberculosis spread is not significant nationally, lack of awareness of the latent form of the condition raises ...

The approach fuses two tuberculosis genes with the goal of directing the immune system to fight drug-tolerant bacterial ...

Alarm raised over lack of basic infection control protocols in hospitals KARACHI: Three hospitals in Karachi have recorded a ...

Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a national nonprofit and leading sponsor of tick-borne disease research in the US, today announced publication of a new peer-reviewed article in Frontiers in Medicine ...

Subscribe to our FREE Newsletter, or Telegram and WhatsApp channels for the latest stories and updates. Tuberculosis (TB) may not spread as easily as influenza or COVID-19, but prolonged close contact ...

The Philippines, in the past two decades, has had one of the fastest-growing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemics in the world. While our total HIV ...

A noteworthy observation was the slight decline of HIV prevalence among youth aged 15-24 years from 8.7% in 2008 to 7.3% in ...

This week in Africa, health news highlights progress in kidney disease research, new investments in health security, and efforts to strengthen epidemiological surveillance. It also covers Togo’s push ...

The total number of newly reported Tuberculosis (TB) cases last year dropped below 6,000 for the first time, with the incidence rate decreasing 66 percent in 20 years, the Centers for Disease Control ...

A potentially deadly disease known as "the white plague" has been rising in the U.S. since the pandemic, health officials have warned. Tuberculosis (TB) gets its nickname from the pale appearance of ...

Here's what to know about the treatment-resistant strain of Shigella that the CDC is warning the public about.