New tests recommended by the WHO can address TB cases with no or few symptoms more quickly and improve access to life-saving treatment.

Respiratory medicine is deeply connected to social and structural determinants of health in terms of the diseases that we try to prevent and we treat. I think that connection to people's lives and ...

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Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have uncovered how the bacteria that causes tuberculosis fuels itself during infection, providing new insights into one of the world's ...

N-acetylcysteine (NAC) failed to eradicate Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, but it did appear to improve lung function in patients with moderate or far-advanced disease, according to a phase II ...

Tuberculosis can silently affect male fertility by damaging reproductive organs, leading to reduced sperm health and ...

An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) treatments by helping infected cells die a gentler death, investigators ...

A tuberculosis case is under investigation in Jackson County. The individual with TB spent time in the county during their infectious period. Close contacts will be notified by public health officials ...

Tuberculosis has plagued humanity for thousands of years, and despite medical advances that can now help us prevent and cure it, the ancient bacterial disease still claims more human lives per year ...