new portable machines are being deployed to speed up detection and curb the silent transmission of the disease ...

Despite recent advances in screening and diagnosis, tuberculosis remains the deadliest infectious disease. An estimated 10·8 ...

Using QuantiFERON-TB Gold as the sole screening test before starting biologic therapy reduces TB diagnoses compared with ...

Doctors are experimenting with using lower doses of blockbuster cancer drugs. It could help hundreds of thousands of lives — if pharmaceutical companies would allow it.

The test can be administered on a mouth swab instead of sputum and doesn’t require lab facilities ...

Relentless coughing echoes through the Mumbai suburb of Govandi, where families live cramped under tarpaulin and salvaged ...

Cannabis use is increasing in people with cancer to help manage symptoms and side effects related to cancer and cancer treatment. Like most drugs, medicines, and treatments, cannabis can also cause ...

Mixing antibiotics with antacids or painkillers with cold syrups can be harmful. Doctors explain the most common drug ...

Back in the late 1800s, medicine didn't have all the answers. People died from infections that today we might cure with pills ...

Patients defaulting on HIV and TB treatment – CITEZW Despite decades of investment and expanded access to free treatment, ...

The United States has suspended some funding for its flagship AIDS relief program, according to international organisations ...