In 2023, after a brief hiatus, tuberculosis regained from COVID its status as the world’s deadliest infectious disease—a ...

Consumption, phthisis, the white plague—a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ...

Tuberculosis is spread by small infectious droplets in the air. A TB patient may emit these droplets by coughing, singing and potentially from regular breathing that occurs during sleep or resting.

Ping-Song Chou, MD,* Ching-Kuan Liu, MD, PhD,* Ruey-Tay Lin, MD,* Chiou-Lian Lai, MD, PhD,* and A-Ching Chao, MD*† †Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Municipal ...

Using a multistage clustering sampling method to select participants in the TB-designated hospitals of the selected counties, patients diagnosed with PTB and notified to the Chinese Tuberculosis ...

TB disease and TB infection are both reportable diseases in Ontario. Patient consent is not required for reporting this information according to the Health Protection and Promotion Act, (HPPA).Please ...

Senior doctors responsible for monitoring cancer care in England and Wales are concerned failings in NHS services are contributing to up to half of patients not getting the right treatment for ...

She says that nurses previously funded by USAID-backed organizations, who primarily cared for patients with HIV, TB and other diseases, have stopped reporting to work. And what used to be handled ...

Conclusion: The findings of this study indicate that elevated SIRI levels are independently associated with an increased risk of all-cause mortality in patients with LTBI ... The data pertaining to TB ...

Tuberculosis is documented in ancient evidence from around the world. An illustration of England’s Charles II touching a patient to heal the “king’s evil” (a.k.a. scrofula, a form of ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Breaking racial barriers, they risked their lives to care for those left to languish and die of incurable tuberculosis. But the day-to-day skill and care they provided New ...