A new article published in Nature offers a promising path toward a shorter, more effective treatment for tuberculosis (TB), a ...

For decades, TB treatment was long and painful. Roughly 1 in 8 cases of TB globally are resistant to standard medicine. ... One, can we find biomarkers markers that could act almost like a crystal ...

Tuberculosis (TB) has affected humans for millennia — even the ancient Greeks searched for a cure. But no effective treatment for TB existed until the mid-1800s, when the sanatorium, or “open ...

A team of doctors and vets in Pakistan has developed a novel treatment for a pair of elephants suffering from tuberculosis that involves feeding them at least 400 pills a day. An autopsy showed ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas, and two nearby counties and continues as of ...

If you don’t get the right treatment for TB, it can be dangerous for you and your baby. You can die of it. So your doctor will want you to start treatment right away. Types of TB.

Ocular tuberculosis is an eye infection caused by the same bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB) in the lungs. Treatment usually involves a 6-month course of antibiotics. It can lead to vision ...

Alice Ball in an undated photo. She developed a method for the treatment of leprosy that was widely used in the pre-antibiotic years of the 1920s and ’30s.

Tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest disease, could be America’s next outbreak by Lyndon Haviland, opinion contributor - 04/30/25 1:30 PM ET ...

The ancient scourge of tuberculosis for years was the deadliest infectious disease. Then SARS-CoV-2 came along and grabbed the notorious title of #1 killer: In 2020, COVID-19 was responsible for 3 ...

According to the Cleveland Clinic, roughly 10 million people became ill with TB and about 1.5 million people died from the disease globally in 2020.There were roughly 7,860 tuberculosis cases ...

Previous TB treatment (left image) involved handfuls of daily pills for two or more years, alongside regular injections. Medicines caused nausea, and sometimes permanent hearing loss and kidney damage ...