A new study has demonstrated that a combination of conditional cash transfers and TB counseling significantly improves ...

Vitamin D supplementation during TB treatment improves patient symptoms, but does not accelerate the clearance of TB bacteria.

A new study shows that tuberculosis patients cash-incentivised and counselled have a 52% lower relative risk of having an unsuccessful treatment outcome.

In an interview with The American Journal of Managed Care, Michael A. Bernstein, MD, stressed the need for effective ...

The endTB trial is one of four recent randomized controlled trials testing new, shorter, and less toxic treatment regimens ...

A doctor and his colleague review the X-ray film of a tuberculosis patient. Kansas is currently experiencing the worst TB outbreak on record within the US. Latin Times Kansas is experiencing one ...

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 ...

Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) programs are tasked with implementing the appropriate isolation of patients with ...

is the most effective strategy to control tuberculosis (TB) among patients with HIV infection. The tuberculin skin test (TST) was the only available method to identify LTBI. The aim of the present ...

The health department and school district are working to track down anyone who may have spent extended periods of time around the tuberculosis patient while they were contagious. Anyone identified ...

Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the northeastern part of the state, with 67 active cases since 2024, marking one of the largest outbreaks in recorded history ...

The aim of this systematic review of qualitative studies was to understand the factors considered important by patients, caregivers and health care providers in contributing to TB medication ...