The World Health Organization (WHO) gave its backing on Wednesday to a new molecular test for tuberculosis made by Cepheid which can rapidly diagnose TB, one of the world's biggest killer diseases.

Tuberculosis (TB), an ongoing infection control concern in long-term care, is more likely to be spread by breathing than by its distinctive cough, according to a new study that may contradict decades ...

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

For people like me who have devoted their entire medical careers to the fight against tuberculosis, there are finally some reasons to be optimistic about the fight against this scourge. This week, ...

San Diego County health officials are warning current or former residents, employees and visitors of a La Jolla nursing home that they may have been exposed to tuberculosis. The potential exposure ...

In resource-limited settings where tuberculosis is a major cause of mortality among HIV patients and where a multidrug-resistant TB epidemic is emerging, researchers are pressing for approaches to ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that usually attacks the lungs. Latest data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that Covid-19 has hit those with tuberculosis (TB) hard. An ...