Directly observed therapy — where a health professional watches someone take a medication — has been the standard of care for tuberculosis treatment in the United States since 2016. Now DOT, as it’s ...

Though tuberculosis is rare in the United States as compared to developing countries, the region has some of the highest ...

San Francisco officials say a TB outbreak at a private high school has led to three active cases and more than 50 latent ...

One in four TB deaths worldwide is HIV related, the international health agency said in its 2009 Global TB Control Report released Tuesday. That's twice as many as had been recogn ...

The immune system remains seriously out-of-whack—in an inflammatory state of overactivation and impaired functionality—following the international gold standard for treating people with latent ...

The tuberculosis outbreak at Archbishop Riordan High School has prompted a comprehensive restart of testing and infection control processes.

World TB Day came and went quietly Monday, but tuberculosis is still with us, as Solano County continues to have elevated cases of the contagious disease best known for causing lung infections, Public ...

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TB remains the leading cause of death among people living with HIV. Uganda is a high TB-burden country, and HIV accelerates ...

Tuberculosis (TB) can affect any part of the body. Therefore, those who experience frequent joint pains, back pain, headache ...

She looks nothing like a public health nightmare, this pale college student who speaks with a faint, Russian-accented voice. And technically, she no longer is — days away from being declared cured of ...