TB can be cured, but ridding the body of the bug often takes many months and usually requires taking four or more medicines. In this special briefing, Spotlight zooms in on what makes the TB bacterium ...

A vaccine protects more than 100 million infants each year from severe tuberculosis (TB), including the fatal brain swelling ...

A man from Peru who was one of roughly 40 federal immigration detainees held in an Alaska jail last month is now hospitalized with tuberculosis in Washington, his attorney said Wednesday. Word of the ...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska said ICE told detainees they were exposed to TB while being held in Anchorage.

An immigration attorney representing one of 41 men in Immigrations and Customs Enforcement custody who were held temporarily ...

In the dry, windswept valleys of Northern Chile, two ancient skeletons are changing how scientists understand the history of ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

By targeting a previously unexploited metabolic pathway essential for bacterial survival, the drug candidate may offer the potential to develop safer, shorter and more effective treatment regimens ...

Tulane University researchers have developed a new handheld TB test that significantly improves detection in people with HIV, ...

Failure to vaccinate newborns with the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine puts them at serious risk of developing ...

New drugs that target 'zombie' tuberculosis (TB) cells are now a step closer, thanks to a new study led by the University of ...