India, April 30 -- "Hello! I'm Deepti Chavan and I am an MDR-TB survivor. I know how it feels to hear the words ...

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

A new national cohort study provides important insights into the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). The ...

More than 10 million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB) every year. The disease remains the world’s biggest infectious disease killers with an estimated 1.25 million annual deaths. The disease is ...

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced that its BD MAXTM Molecular Multi-Drug ...

A troubling health alert is rattling a Southern California campus after officials revealed that students and staff may have been exposed to a dangerous, drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis. San ...

One in five multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) cases in children under the age of 15 could be averted every year by household contact management, according to a new modeling study published ...

For 2007, the WHO estimated 511,000 cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB, representing approximately 5% of all TB cases worldwide. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) strains have been detected in at ...

Last month I attended the Pacific Health Summit in Seattle. It is a pretty exclusive venue (aspiring to be the “Davos of Health Care”) attended by senior representatives from the world of health care ...

Tuberculosis (TB) may last for several months, with treatment. The length of time it takes to cure the condition can vary. It may depend on whether the TB is latent or active. Tuberculosis (TB) is a ...