A resident in southern New Jersey recently tested positive for tuberculosis. Here's what you need to know about the spread of ...

In a recent study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, researchers reported the TB-PRACTECAL clinical trial outcomes, which evaluated the efficacy and safety of oral bedaquiline, linezolid, ...

Children with HIV on dolutegravir (Tivicay)-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) can safely receive the standard prophylactic ...

In Johnson County, Iowa, the number of tuberculosis cases has increased in recent years—and so has the cost of containing it.

Shorter duration, fully oral treatment regimens for tuberculosis (TB) are now recommended for most adults and children. Updated joint guidelines from the American Thoracic Society, the CDC, European ...

Adjunctive corticosteroids may reduce mortality from all forms of tuberculosis by 17%, no matter which organ group was affected, according to a meta-analysis. Julia A. Critchley, DPhil, from the ...

USAID funding cuts for tuberculosis programs have resulted in an estimated 11,000 additional deaths. The cuts, implemented shortly after Trump's inauguration, could lead to a surge in global ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney and the Centenary Institute have discovered how a promising class of experimental ...

TACOMA, Wash. — A Tacoma woman who has been avoiding treatment and isolation for tuberculosis (TB) for more than a year has received a yet another court order to submit to isolation, testing, and ...

Despite major advances in diagnostics and treatment, tuberculosis (TB) remains the world's deadliest infectious disease. In a ...

Ocular TB is a rare eye disease due to infection from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the same bacterium that causes tuberculosis, commonly known as TB. TB symptoms usually start in the lungs, but they ...