Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years.

Actually getting treatment is key: The World Health Organization (WHO) says that for two-thirds of TB patients who don't get ...

Early diagnosis and treatment of active Tuberculosis is utmost priority, but identifying the latent TB, especially among the ...

In a new book, author John Green writes about visiting a tuberculosis hospital in Sierra Leone, where he met a TB patient not ...

In a new nonfiction book, the Y.A. novelist describes the disease as a window into “the folly and brilliance and cruelty and ...

Tuberculosis lives and thrives in the lungs. When the bacteria that cause the disease are coughed into the air, they are ...

Tuberculosis bacteria rely on a family of genes that help them survive the challenging journey from one person's lungs to ...

Contact tracing among family members of tuberculosis (TB) patients is crucial in preventing the spread of the contagious ...

A student at Colonia High School in Woodbridge has tested positive for tuberculosis, a potentially dangerous lung disease. In ...

With an average of 70 confirmed cases of the highly contagious tuberculosis a year, Guam will join the observance of World TB ...

Tuberculosis (TB) continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years. More ...

A high school student in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, has tested positive for tuberculosis, according to a letter from ...