Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about health and U.K. health policy. Although it's often thought of as a disease of the past, tuberculosis is still found ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major unrecognized cause of deadly sepsis among people with HIV in Africa, a sweeping new study reveals. Beginning treatment for TB immediately – even before sepsis patients are ...

A recent study published by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, in collaboration with the German Center for Infection Research, identified two main subtypes or ...

To address the global burden of tuberculosis, one of humankind's oldest scourges, an international collaboration led by Johns Hopkins Medicine has today been awarded up to $200 million in research ...

Tuberculosis patients danced in the corridors of New York City’s Sea View Hospital ten years ago to celebrate their speeding recovery on new drugs, mainly isoniazid, or INH (for isonicotinic acid ...

Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded a five-year, $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health to establish a new ...

The National Tuberculosis Association started selling its Christmas Seals Thanksgiving Day. By New Year’s Day the Association through its state and community sub-organizations expects to raise ...

More than 50 latent TB cases and three active infections prompt Riordan High School to halt in‑person classes and expand ...

Cells throughout our body can defend themselves from bacteria using various mechanisms. By harnessing a cellular process called autophagy, researchers at The Crick hope to boost our body’s ability to ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic claims lives across the planet and eclipses all other news, it is easy to forget that it is not the only pandemic harming people across the globe. Tuberculosis (TB) has been ...

Maria Bambina Sr. Agustina Tudu, 69, is a Santal Indigenous from Dinajpur, a northern district of Bangladesh. Tudu took her first vows in 1984, her final vows in 1989 and later trained as a nurse in ...