March 18 is World Tuberculosis Day. Let’s do a quick overview of TB, and discuss the different types of TB, risk factors, ...

Countries in Africa are having to seek alternative funding amid a block to US funding for mpox response efforts.

At least 34 people have been hospitalized in the outbreak that began in Texas. Health experts fear folks are following advice such as using cod liver oil and are not seeking medical help soon enough.

Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that usually affects the lungs but can spread to other parts of the body, including the skin. Once it reaches the skin, TB can cause a variety of lesions ...

Actually getting treatment is key: The World Health Organization (WHO) says that for two-thirds of TB patients who don't get ...

In a new book, author John Green writes about visiting a tuberculosis hospital in Sierra Leone, where he met a TB patient not ...

He said he was frustrated by CDC guidelines that limited testing to suspected infected patients who returned to the US from Wuhan, China, and elsewhere overseas, exhibited severe lower respiratory ...

TB kills more than a million people each year. Dr. Mireille Kamariza has spent her career developing better detection and ...

Here’s what the CDC says, along with how infectious disease doctors feel about the changes. If you test positive for COVID-19 ...

Separately from the FDA testing, makers of another acne treatment ... rubbers and more, according to the CDC. When humans are exposed to benzene for long periods of time, it can disrupt how ...

Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) strains have been detected in at least 55 countries worldwide. These data substantiate the need for rapid and reliable methods for drug-susceptibility testing ...