The Church of Scotland Hospital in Tugela Ferry, South Africa, sits in an arid valley among the mountains of KwaZulu-Natal. Occupying a dozen or so tin-roofed, low-slung buildings, the hospital serves ...
Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that infects nearly 11 million people worldwide, killing some 1.25 million of them every year, per data from the World Health Organization. A person infected with the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about health and U.K. health policy. Although it's often thought of as a disease of the past, tuberculosis is still found ...
Tuberculosis is once again the world’s deadliest infectious disease, and the number of people newly diagnosed with TB reached a new high in 2023, according to new global estimates. Last year, 10.8 ...
South Africa has one of the highest TB burdens in the world, but it has also developed one of the most sophisticated scientific ecosystems for the study of the disease. Clinical trials conducted in ...
NEWSWATCH SEVEN. ALL RIGHT, ABBY, THANK YOU. NOW, TUBERCULOSIS IS TREATABLE. BUT HERE’S THE PROBLEM. MAY MAYBE YOU MAY BE INFECTED FOR MONTHS, EVEN YEARS, WITHOUT SHOWING ANY SYMPTOMS. KETV NEWSWATCH ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Disruptions to care caused by the COVID-19 pandemic continued to negatively impact the fight against ...
The number of U.S. tuberculosis cases in 2023 was the highest in a decade, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced. The CDC said on its website Thursday that "overall, cases ...
The ancient scourge of tuberculosis for years was the deadliest infectious disease. Then SARS-CoV-2 came along and grabbed the notorious title of #1 killer: In 2020, COVID-19 was responsible for 3.5 ...
TB can be cured, but ridding the body of the bug often takes many months and usually requires taking four or more medicines. In this special briefing, Spotlight zooms in on what makes the TB bacterium ...
Almost forgotten today, tuberculosis (TB) is still one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world. In an interview with Coliquio, Ronald D. Gerste, MD, PhD, an ophthalmologist and historian, ...
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and AlveoliX have developed the first human lung-on-chip model using stem cells ...