Positive results mark an important step forward in efforts to develop effective treatments for children with drug-resistant TB COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Nov. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- New interim data from ...

The notification rate of tuberculosis (TB) went up from 2 to 2.5 per 100,000 population. But overall, numbers of notified paediatric cases remain relatively low across the region. As young children ...

Presentation of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) as acute pneumonia in severely-malnourished and HIV-positive children has received very little attention, although this is very important in the management ...

New findings also indicate that children who live in settings with a high burden of TB have a consistently high annual risk of developing TB infection throughout childhood. An estimated 1.2 million ...

At the World Conference on Lung Health this week, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) released data from our operational research highlighting that using the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended ...

According to a recent meta-analysis, higher-dose tuberculosis treatment regimens in children, following 2010 World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, were associated with significantly higher rates ...

Despite global efforts, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in children is rising at an alarming rate, with younger children at the highest risk of mortality—urgent action is needed to reverse the trend.

ABOUT THE DISEASE AND HOW IT’S TRANSMITTED. NEW HAMPSHIRE HEALTH OFFICIALS SAY ALL CHILDREN AND STAFF AT AN UNNAMED DAYCARE IN MANCHESTER WERE EXPOSED TO A PERSON WITH ACTIVE TUBERCULOSIS BETWEEN ...

Children born in the United States are 6 times more likely to have tuberculosis (TB) if at least 1 parent was born abroad, according to a study published online February 10 in Pediatrics. The finding ...

Children and staff at a Manchester child care facility were exposed to an individual with tuberculosis over a five-month period, according to the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human ...

Tuberculosis cases have increased in Tulare County this year, which inspired the county’s Health & Human Services Agency to issue a warning about the disease.

A new study has assessed TB infection and active TB disease during children's first decade of life in high-burden settings. The new results found that there was a consistently high rate of annual TB ...