Tuberculosis (TB) does not only affect the lungs — it can also affect other areas of the body, known as extrapulmonary TB. Types of extrapulmonary TB include gastrointestinal TB, skeletal TB, liver TB ...

Tuberculous peritonitis occurs when tuberculosis (TB) spreads to the protective lining of your abdomen. This can cause abdominal pain and swelling, but early antibiotic treatment can help. Tuberculous ...

A small study offers a bit of cautious optimism about the prospects for treatment of tuberculosis, one of humankind's most ancient scourges. While XDR-TB is worse, MDR-TB is bad enough, says Dr.

African scientists have developed a nanoscale drug delivery system to treat pericarditis, a drug-resistant and lethal ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious infection usually affecting the lungs, caused by the pathogenic bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It is a well-known and stigmatised major public health ...

The rate of tuberculosis in San Francisco has been dropping over the last decade, but health officials say they are seeing a new type of TB patient, someone who isn't poor or homeless or a newly ...

The routine use of steroids to treat tuberculosis may help reduce deaths from all types of the disease, according to a new review of existing research. The routine use of steroids to treat ...

There’s a vaccine available for tuberculosis. However, it’s not commonly given in the United States. One reason why is that tuberculosis is no longer as common in the United States as it once was.

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 ...

Pune: Of the 2,30,328 cases of tuberculosis the state recorded last year, 36% — or more than 82,000 people — had a more worrying type of TB known as extrapulmonary TB (EPTB), an analysis of state ...

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 ...