The World Health Organization (WHO) gave its backing on Wednesday to a new molecular test for tuberculosis made by Cepheid which can rapidly diagnose TB, one of the world's biggest killer diseases.

Researchers at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences have developed a new inhalable form of tuberculosis (TB) treatment that could significantly reduce the burden of current therapy.

A new study in "Nature Medicine" estimates 2 million people are incorrectly told they have TB each year — and clinicians miss ...

Tuberculosis (TB), an ongoing infection control concern in long-term care, is more likely to be spread by breathing than by its distinctive cough, according to a new study that may contradict decades ...

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For people like me who have devoted their entire medical careers to the fight against tuberculosis, there are finally some reasons to be optimistic about the fight against this scourge. This week, ...

Introduction Towards the ‘End TB Strategy’ targets, the WHO recommends the provision of tuberculosis (TB) preventive therapy (TPT) for high-risk groups including people living with HIV (PLWH). 3 years ...

In a recent pre-print posted to the medRxiv* server, researchers conducted a systematic review to evaluate the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 on the tuberculosis care cascade. They screened 27 ...

Even as the world comes to grips with the mounting death toll due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the WHO released its 2020 Global Tuberculosis Report last week. The news is not good. Nearly 1.4 million ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - County health officials Friday are warning current or former residents, employees, and visitors of a La Jolla nursing home may have been exposed to tuberculosis. The potential ...