SARANAC LAKE — Tuberculosis is still the world’s leading infectious disease killer, and one of the biggest challenges in developing new treatments is that early testing does not always reflect what ...

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers and the TB Drug Accelerator have received two grants totaling $6.8 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study tuberculosis (TB) drug development. This ...

Rutgers Health research has uncovered why a relatively new antibiotic for tuberculosis (TB) works against multidrug-resistant strains, potentially inspiring improved treatments and drug development ...

Although drug-resistant tuberculosis is so deadly in part because some first-choice antibiotics fail to kill TB bacteria, the TB bacteria may also be undermining the body’s ability to defend itself, a ...

A study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has found that certain antibodies inhibit Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the cause of tuberculosis (TB), the infectious disease that claims the ...

A research team at UPV is leading the development of a sensor that paves the way for the rapid, selective and cost-effective ...

Working toward more effective tuberculosis (TB) vaccines, researchers have developed two strains of mycobacteria with 'kill switches' that can be triggered to stop the bacteria after they activate an ...

An analysis of fungi collected from peat bogs has identified several species that produce substances toxic to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the bacterium that causes tuberculosis in humans. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (stockdevil/iStock/Getty Images) After decades of decline in the developed world, tuberculosis ...

Benztropine, a drug prescribed for tremors in Parkinson’s disease, has shown promise against tuberculosis (TB) in both human cell and mouse models. The corresponding study was published in npj ...

Researchers at Boston University have discovered an unexpectedly high prevalence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA (TB DNA) ...

You probably think tuberculosis is some old-timey disease that only shows up in period dramas or affects people in far-away countries with poor healthcare systems. But here’s a reality check that ...