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 ...

Patient choice in taking treatment is framed by the physiological and psychological impacts of the disease and also by the social and cultural structures in which the person is immersed. [68] Patient ...

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 ...

Caitlin Dugdale, MD, MSc, and Kimon Zachary, MD, physicians in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and assistant professors of Medicine at Harvard Medical ...

Sriram Chandrasekaran receives funding from the US National Institutes of Health. Tuberculosis is the world’s deadliest bacterial infection. It afflicted over 10 million people and took 1.3 million ...

The price of pretomanid, a key component used in the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), dropped by 25% in April, to less than $1 per day, primarily owing to Indian manufacturers joining in ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic claims lives across the planet and eclipses all other news, it is easy to forget that it is not the only pandemic harming people across the globe. Tuberculosis (TB) has been ...

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 ...