TB tests use phlegm — not the easiest thing to get or work with. It takes time for results. And there can be false negatives ...

Gumla: A vegetable and fruits merchant from Simdega district is helping tuberculosis patients recover by funding their nutritional kits. Bharat Prasad, 48, has adopted 2,200 TB patients since 2024 and ...

Empirical anti-tuberculosis therapy is a common strategy when patients with acute leukemia chemotherapy-induced neutropenia develop diffuse pulmonary small nodular and subsolid lesions. However, the ...

Catholic women religious at two hospitals in Bangladesh have spent decades treating tuberculosis patients whom the government and society have largely overlooked. Sister Roberta Pignone, a member of ...

Health workers in developing countries know that isolating tuberculosis patients is an outdated and potentially harmful practice, but lack the resources to move away from it. By Stephanie Nolen ...

Sepsis is a leading global cause of hospital deaths, occurring when the body's response to infection damages tissue and causes organs to fail. Africa bears the world's highest burden of sepsis, with ...

Tuberculosis has earned the undesirable distinction of being the world's top infectious disease killer — a mantle it took back from COVID in 2023. TB claimed the lives of 1.23 million people in 2024 ...

1 Université Catholique de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. 2 Hospital Provincial Général de Référence de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. 3 Center for Tropical ...

A simple, low-cost, automated text-messaging program can nearly triple the odds of quitting smoking for patients with tuberculosis (TB), according to findings from a trial published in JAMA. The ...

NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK HAS LONG SERVED AS A BREATH OF FRESH AIR. A DRIVE THROUGH SARANAC LAKE REVEALS UNIQUE ARCHITECTURE WHERE HISTORY AND HEALING INTERTWINE. WE HAVE HUNDREDS OF CURE COTTAGES ALL ...