In September, the Obama administration will unveil The National Action Plan to Combat Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (TB). I commend the administration for developing an action plan to address this ...

Fifty years ago when René Dubos published his classic essays on tuberculosis (TB) -- past and then-present -- they were a series of previous accomplishments and great expectations for the future. [1] ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today issued new recommendations designed to speed up detection and improve treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). The recommendations call for use ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Tuberculosis killed 1.6 million people in 2017 — more than 4,000 each day. Among its deadly attributes, TB is ...

There were an estimated 490,000 new cases of drug-resistant TB in 2016. Tuberculosis, a lung disease most often transmitted by breathing infected particles in the air, is the ninth leading cause of ...

On New Year's Eve 2004, after months of losing weight and suffering fevers, night sweats and shortness of breath, student Anna Watterson was taken into hospital coughing up blood. It was strange to be ...

More than 40% of tuberculosis infections that are resistant to front-line treatments are also resistant to some common backup drugs, according to research published this week in TheLancet 1. Efforts ...

The worldwide burden of childhood tuberculosis is twice as large as once thought, according to a new study that estimates nearly 1 million children become sick with the disease every year. TB is the ...

Join us for an insightful webinar to discuss a holistic approach to testing for TB in a clinical setting. Tuberculosis remains a global health challenge, with significant hurdles in diagnosing and ...

Dhaka, Bangladesh – MDR-TB is Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis. As the name suggests it is much harder to treat than “regular” TB. There are several different kinds of “first line” drugs that can be ...