All the symptoms were there but it still took four doctors and several months of waiting before Bharti Kapar's cough and stomach pains were diagnosed as tuberculosis. Hailing from a poor town outside ...

Northern California health officials are checking students and staff at a Modesto high school for tuberculosis after a student was diagnosed with the disease, officials say. The student is receiving ...

County health officials confirmed a diagnosis of infectious pulmonary tuberculosis in a San Diego International Airport employee Friday but stressed that the risk of public exposure is considerably ...

Despite medical advances, human suffering from the ancient disease tuberculosis persists as a modern healthcare challenge. Although it is the deadliest infectious disorder in all of human history, it ...

The county public health department is offering free tuberculosis testing to anyone who visited Mar Vista Academy during a 12-week period when a possible exposure occurred on the south San Diego ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic condition that usually affects the lungs. The treatment of TB is divided into three types: first line treatment, second line treatment, and drug resistant treatment.

Two recent events have nudged tuberculosis, the leading infectious cause of death around the word, onto the world stage. The first was the World Health Organization’s Global Ministerial Conference on ...

The bacteria responsible for tuberculosis can be killed by a toxin they produce unless it is neutralized by an antidote protein. The scientists are now seeking to appropriate this 'suicide' mechanism ...

U.S. regulators have approved a new tuberculosis medication that shortens and improves treatment for the hardest-to-treat cases — a worsening problem in many poor countries. Decades of incomplete or ...

A new TB drug, sorfequiline, shows promising results in a multinational trial, raising hopes for faster and simpler treatment ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. – Hunters can contract a form of tuberculosis from deer, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency published a report last week that looks at a 2017 case ...