A new study by University of Bath scientists has highlighted two new potential families of drug molecules that could open the ...

For years, the City of San Jose says St. James Park has been the hub of unhoused people, crime and drug dealing. Now city leaders are telling drug dealers in the area to stay out or get arrested.

In a case of serious medical error, an 18-year-old man was treated for six months for tuberculosis (TB) when he actually had ...

The researchers identified several ways to strengthen peer-led TB efforts, including expanding mobile diagnostic services, integrating TB care into methadone clinics and offering small financial ...

Image=KCDC Amid the increased possibility of using artificial intelligence (AI) for care due to aging, a senior medication ...

Current tuberculosis infection tests struggle to detect the disease in those with HIV. A common co-infection, HIV can hide TB ...

A new article published in Nature offers a promising path toward a shorter, more effective treatment for tuberculosis (TB), a ...

Delayed sputum conversion and high treatment failure are common in patients with bedaquiline-resistant TB, urging faster ...

Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire de Lille, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, INSERM, Institut Pasteur de Lille and the University of Lille have prepared and tested new tricyclic ...

The emergence of multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis highlights the need to discover new antitubercular agents. Here we describe the synthesis and ...

In another randomized clinical trial, TMC207 was given as part of a multidrug treatment together with an individualized background regimen of second-line TB drugs at a daily oral dose of 400 mg ...

TMC207 is a first-in-class anti-TB diarylquinoline (also named R207910 or the 'J' compound) with activity against drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB. TMC207 inhibits the proton pump of ...