The smartphone-sized, battery-powered test is a cost-effective tool that can improve TB diagnoses, particularly in rural areas where facilities and equipment are less accessible. Dr. Tony Hu, a Tulane ...

MERCED—The Merced County Board of Supervisors accepted a $72,735 grant from the California Department of Public Health’s ...

Researchers at the Ragon Institute have made a significant discovery about how antibodies can directly enhance the body's ...

Researchers at the Ragon Institute have made a significant discovery about how antibodies can directly enhance the body's ...

It’s a really powerful quote that makes you wonder why illnesses like tuberculosis remain stigmatized, and how that impacts ...

The bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB) may have an 'on-off switch' that lets them pause and restart growth, according to a new study. The research helps explain why TB is so hard to treat with ...

The bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB) may have an "on-off switch" that lets them pause and restart growth, according to a new study from the University of Surrey and the University of Oxford.

Screenshot—Deputy Minister of Villages and Development of Disadvantaged Regions, Ahmad Riza Patria, at the launch of the National Joint Movement of TB Alert Villages Strengthening, in Jakarta on ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates nearly 13 million people in the U.S. have “latent TB infection.” Up to 10 percent will develop active TB if they aren’t treated.

Dr. Zenner said, "Global TB control requires early identification and treatment of TB in risk groups. Our novel screening algorithms show that screening for active and dormant TB can be done ...

"Failure to control TB anywhere will have effects everywhere, so we are seeing either rising cases or slowed progress in TB control in many places," Jason Andrews, an infectious disease specialist ...

“Because we live in such an interconnected world, failure to control TB anywhere will have effects everywhere, so we are seeing either rising cases or slowed progress in TB control in many ...