A new nano-based drug delivery technology could outwit tuberculosis (TB)—one of humanity's most ancient diseases.

Tuberculosis patients danced in the corridors of New York City’s Sea View Hospital ten years ago to celebrate their speeding recovery on new drugs, mainly isoniazid, or INH (for isonicotinic acid ...

January 6, 2011 — In patients given standard treatment for tuberculosis (TB), adjunctive vitamin D significantly hastened sputum culture conversion in participants with the tt genotype of the TaqI ...

In patients with rifampin-resistant tuberculosis, all-oral treatment regimens that are more effective, shorter, and have a more acceptable side-effect profile than current regimens are needed. We ...

Adrie J. C. Steyn, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Microbiology, and Hayden T. Pacl. an M.D.-Ph.D. student at the Heersink School of Medicine and first author of this study, are the latest ...

Consumption, phthisis, the white plague – a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ice age. Today, the disease – passed from those who are actively sick to ...