A new strategy for tuberculosis (TB) screening, proposed by a team of researchers led by Queen Mary University of London, ...

An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) treatments by helping infected cells die a gentler death, investigators ...

A new strategy for tuberculosis (TB) screening, proposed by a team of researchers led by Queen Mary University of London, provides a solution to problems with current TB screening, which does not ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that kills more than a million people worldwide every year. The pathogen that ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that kills more than a million people worldwide every year. The pathogen that causes the disease, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is deadly in part because of ...

Paraguay’s Health Ministry and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) have launched a joint technical mission to ...

But it remains the world’s deadliest infectious disease, killing an estimated 1.25 million people in 2023. TB mostly affects countries in Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Western Pacific ...

March 24, 2025, was set aside by the World Health Organisation as World Tuberculosis Day to commemorate the day in 1882 when one of the true giants of early medicine, Dr Robert Koch, announced his ...

Badger culling and vaccination in bovine TB hotspots across low-risk areas (LRAs) of England is being linked to dramatic ...

Pakistan ranks fifth globally in the number of tuberculosis (TB) cases and fourth for drug-resistant TB, a concerning ...

Tuberculosis (TB) cases rose 13 per cent in England last year, with increases among both immigrants and people born in the UK ...

To be sure, tuberculosis is the most common infectious disease in the world, and also the most deadly. It is estimated that up to one-quarter of the global population has had this infection.