DRESHER, PA. (WPVI) -- We need bacteria to digest food and absorb nutrients. However, when a bacteria commonly found in soil and water gets into our lungs, it can cause trouble, in the form of a MAC ...

If you have Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) lung disease, your doctor may suggest treatment with Arikayce. It’s a prescription drug used together with other drugs to treat MAC lung disease that’s ...

Dear Dr. Roach • I’m a 65-year-old woman in relatively good health. I’ve been diagnosed with a nontuberculous mycobacterial lung infection (mycobacterium avium-intracellulare, or MAI) leading to ...

A phase 3 trial evaluating a nebulized clofazimine inhalation suspension (MNKD-101) for the treatment of refractory nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) ...

Dear Doctors: I suffered extensive fatigue that I had attributed to a COVID-19 infection. Then a lung culture found something called mycobacterium avium complex. Would you kindly consider discussing ...

Everyone breathes in Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) bacteria from time to time, but most people don't get sick. These bacteria, cousins of the deadly Mycobacterium tuberculosis, tend to live out ...

In a clinical first, reported in Cell, researchers used viruses that infect bacteria, called bacteriophages or phages for short, to successfully eliminate a mycobacterial infection that was resistant ...

DEAR DOCTORS: I suffered extensive fatigue that I had attributed to a COVID-19 infection. Then a lung culture found something called mycobacterium avium complex. Would you kindly consider discussing ...