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

Chest X-rays are used to identify lung abnormalities, while sputum tests may be conducted for older children to detect TB bacteria. A thorough clinical evaluation, including a detailed medical history ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...

Masesi Ndlovu has been living with TB for two years and relapsed recently due to smoking. Read more about her story here.

A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The World Health Organization estimates more than a million people died from tuberculosis ...

HIV is not like TB. While TB treatment takes six long months, this is a curable disease. HIV, on the other hand, cannot be ...

The system of finding, diagnosing and treating TB has collapsed in dozens of countries across Africa and Asia since President Trump ordered the aid freeze.

Refractory chronic cough is a cough that persists for over 8 weeks and does not respond to treatment of any underlying cause. Recent randomised trials for refractory chronic cough have shown ...

Providing well-tolerated, preventive TB treatment can reduce the risk of developing active TB disease by 85 per cent in the ...

Widespread screening for subclinical TB using X-ray machines to diagnose and treat asymptomatic cases early in Kerala.