With one of the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in US history, Kansas has more to worry about than its recent Super Bowl defeat. During the past year, 67 people with TB have been detected. This ...

New Delhi: Delhi's 100-day tuberculosis awareness and screening campaign, launched in December last year, has mobilised schools, colleges, and shelter homes to enhance the prevention of the disease ...

Reports of TB date back to the time of Hippocrates, but the Kansas outbreak shows that the ancient disease is very much a modern-day scourge.

Besides screening people who have TB symptoms, the main intent of the intensified campaign is to use a chest X-ray to screen people for subclinical or asymptomatic TB disease followed by ...

World TB Day I spent a day accompanying TB affected street activists (TASA) - women who help homeless women and female ...

Diseases don’t respect national borders … governments all over the world need to work together to rein them in ...

There is no disagreement that foreign aid makes a difference; more resources are needed, not less. An estimated US$22 billion ...

It is difficult to diagnose TB among children because of the non-specific symptoms of the disease and the problems of sputum samples for testing. Such a diagnostic issue is compounded even more in ...

Tuberculosis has stalked humanity for as nearly as long as we've been on earth. In this article, we take a look at how UCSF ...

Children are also identified by health centers when they are presented with symptoms of TB. The new guidelines recommend the four-month treatment regimen 2HRZE/2HR for patients with non-severe ...

So while there aren’t that many cases of active TB causing the familiar symptoms of coughing ... inhale the airborne droplets they expel: many children, who are in close, ongoing contact ...