An automated SMS program embedded into TB care helped 40% of patients quit smoking; experts explore if a program might help cessation among smokers with other comorbidities.

Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that infects nearly 11 million people worldwide, killing some 1.25 million of them every year, per data from the World Health Organization. A person infected with the ...

Kansas is experiencing its largest tuberculosis outbreak in history, with 67 active cases and two deaths. The outbreak is contained to specific areas in Kansas and poses a low risk to the general ...

Some survivors of tuberculosis (TB) have urged those living with the condition to make taking their medication their optimum goal if they want to stay alive ...

The immune system remains seriously out-of-whack—in an inflammatory state of overactivation and impaired ...

There’s a vaccine available for tuberculosis. However, it’s not commonly given in the United States. One reason why is that tuberculosis is no longer as common in the United States as it once was.

Tuberculosis (TB) can affect any part of the body. Therefore, those who experience frequent joint pains, back pain, headache ...