Drugs to treat tuberculosis have been around for more than 75 years, yet it remains the world's top infectious disease killer ...

TB tests use phlegm — not the easiest thing to get or work with. It takes time for results. And there can be false negatives ...

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 ...

Lack of access to molecular testing in regions with high tuberculosis burden can slow diagnosis and treatment. The ...

A global team of scientists and clinicians found that a cheap, easy-to-use test for tuberculosis was just as good, if not ...

While tuberculosis spread is not significant nationally, lack of awareness of the latent form of the condition raises legitimate concerns for potential future infections.

Tuberculosis patients danced in the corridors of New York City’s Sea View Hospital ten years ago to celebrate their speeding recovery on new drugs, mainly isoniazid, or INH (for isonicotinic acid ...

Tuberculosis, dread disease, drew concentrated attention from doctors, public health workers, social hygienists and Red Cross contributors during the past fortnight. Last week the National ...

The nasal spray, DNA-based vaccine targets two genes to help the immune system fight drug-tolerant “persisters” that survive ...

Data from Phase 2a study demonstrated the first clinical proof of concept for alpibectir in combination with ethionamide (AlpE) in the treatment of patients with tuberculosis. The results, published ...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Monday launched a public consultation on revised guidance for companies developing new drugs to treat tuberculosis (TB). Comments on the guidance, which is an ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic claims lives across the planet and eclipses all other news, it is easy to forget that it is not the only pandemic harming people across the globe. Tuberculosis (TB) has been ...