Our state continues to see new laws introduced each year that diminish funding and the authority of health departments — just ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...

She actually first broke the story that Kansas was even having a TB outbreak. As of last Friday, Kansas has seen 68 active cases of TB, and that’s since the beginning of the outbreak ...

Leading UCSF physician-scientists are developing targeted treatments, earlier diagnostics, and helping to solve tuberculosis’ ...

Trying to keep a resurgence of tuberculosis cases from exploding into an outbreak, the Vanderburgh County Health Department plans to open a new clinic.

Kansas was coping with this latest TB crisis throughout 2024. However . . . Here's the highlight of a KC Star guest column ...

Kansas faces one of the largest TB outbreaks in US history. TB, an enduring pandemic, thrives in poverty-stricken areas and ...

A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has played a pivotal role in the resurgence of TB. Cases increased globally by 4.6% from 2020 to 2023, reversing decades of steady disease declines. In the US, TB cases rose by ...

Providing well-tolerated, preventive TB treatment can reduce the risk of developing active TB disease by 85 per cent in the ...