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

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

A confirmed case of active tuberculosis at Tiyan High School has ... to the bacteria causing the infectious lung disease from the patient, and failure to complete the required test by Jan. 31 ...

Jan. 29, 2025 — Study finds three new safe and effective drug regimens to fight multidrug-resistant TB. The treatments, which include recently discovered TB drugs, give new options for shorter ...

Hospitalised children predate 19th-century specialist children’s hospitals. Before Lister and anaesthesia, surgery was generally of short duration. In the 18th century, paediatric surgery was ...

If left untreated, about 5-10% of latent cases will develop into active tuberculosis disease, according to the CDC.

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

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

TB infections have been rising every year since 2020 after 30 years of decline. Now, a historic outbreak in Kansas is highlighting the disturbing trend. A colorized X-ray of a patient's chest ...

A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear to be the largest outbreak of the disease in U.S. history as a state healt ...

New data published today shows that 784 patients a day were in hospital with norovirus last week (week ending 19 January 2025), up from 650 the previous week. Levels ...