India is leveraging artificial intelligence in a portable kit for early and rapid tuberculosis detection, transforming its ...

Quick screening helps identify undiagnosed TB cases within the patient’s family, enabling early treatment and preventing ...

The Gujarat government reported a significant reduction in tuberculosis cases and mortality rates in 2023, credited to ...

The newly published results of two small clinical trials suggest that two novel antibiotics could provide safer alternatives ...

Tuberculosis has passed Covid as the top infectious disease killer, despite new medicines and better diagnostic tools. Gifty Gyan, who was diagnosed with tuberculosis in June, was weighed at the ...

What is TB? Tuberculosis, also known as TB, is a bacterial infection that primarily affects a person's lungs. Its symptoms vary widely depending on how the slow-growing mycobacterium that causes ...

The 2024 Global Tuberculosis Report, published last week by the World Health Organization, puts TB back in the top slot with 1.25 million deaths in 2023 compared to 320,000 COVID-19 deaths.

Current treatment for bedaquiline-resistant tuberculosis is linked with poor microbiological responses, unfavorable clinical ...

For the last 100 years, we’ve only had one TB vaccine — and it leaves a lot to be desired. Skip to main content. ... This ancient disease, known today as tuberculosis or TB, ...

According to the CDC, tuberculosis (TB) is a disease cause by germs that are spread from person to person through the air. There are two kinds of TB: active and inactive.

Tuberculosis is spread by small infectious droplets in the air. A TB patient may emit these droplets by coughing, singing and potentially from regular breathing that occurs during sleep or resting .

How money is helping people avoid and fight TB. Tuberculosis is famously a disease of poverty. People are exposed to the bacteria that causes TB in overcrowded, under ventilated spaces.