The Latest Breaking News from Tuberculosis

The report suggests that the BCG tuberculosis vaccine can significantly strengthen the immune system

Two new studies draw on data from more than 12,000 patients to help figure out ways to battle antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis.

Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Kentucky was opened up to help contain a tuberculosis outbreak and a series of 'bloody' experiments were carried out on its suffering patients

East Fortune hospital closed in 1997 but was once used to treat tuberculosis patients. The inside of the abandoned building has been explored by urban explorers who made the creepy find

Until the Second World War, the hopsital was a tuberculosis sanatorium for patients in the south east region of Scotland

BALTIMORE — Johns Hopkins Medicine has received $200 million in federal funding to head up a consortium aimed at treating and stemming spread of one of the world’s oldest and deadliest scourges: tuberculosis.

On the streets of the capital with the doctors, nurses and outreach workers administering care to at-risk populations. Photographs by Tom Pilston

Carrianne Franks was hospitalised for nine weeks with a unknown illness, before doctors identified it as tuberculosis just hours before she passed away.

Family were not able to say goodbye

The United Nations and many researchers have emphasized the critical role international collaborative science plays in solving global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss and pandemics. The rise of non-Western countries as science powers is helping to drive this type of global cooperative research. For example, Brazil, Russia, India, China…

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, lung disease, diabetes, obesity and mental disorders, are often chronic and develop over a long period. Collectively, NCDs account for about 70% of all deaths globally (and 60% of deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa, where they account for over 55% of hospital admissions…