A routine health check leads one Central Texas man on a lifesaving journey, prompting doctors to stress the importance of ...

BCG (Bacillus Calmette - Guerin) vaccine is made from a treated (attenuated) live strain of bacterium derived from Mycobacterium bovis, a bacterium which typically causes tuberculosis (TB) in cattle ...

Initial blood work found hints of an infection, and the doctors initially suspected a bacterial skin infection (cellulitis) ...

PMC racing against time to meet its tuberculosis (TB) screening target as it faces severe shortage of equipment and manpower ...

A tuberculosis outbreak in Edmonton’s inner-city has prompted a renewed look at how the airborne disease spreads and how it ...

A study led by the University of Cape Town (UCT) has found that most tuberculosis (TB) cases detected among adults living with someone who has TB are silent (without symptoms) at the time of screening ...

India has a large volume of TB cases, but TB incidence has dropped by 21% from 237 per lakh population in 2015 to 187 per ...

New research reveals that abnormal chest X-ray results strongly predict future TB risk, emphasising the value of early ...

THE Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday announced that it will double the proposed budget for its tuberculosis (TB) ...

Once known as a disease of the past, tuberculosis continues to haunt modern India — with delayed diagnoses, stigma, and ...

To slow the spread of tuberculosis (TB) and enable early detection of infectious cases in South Africa and other high-burden ...

Tuberculosis remains the world's leading infectious killer, claiming an estimated 1.23 million lives last year, the WHO said ...