Tuberculosis is both curable and preventable, yet each year, it still kills more people than any other infectious disease.

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest and deadliest infectious diseases we know. It commonly impacts the lungs, but can also affect other areas of the body like the spine, brain or kidneys.

Tuberculosis (TB) may last for several months, with treatment. The length of time it takes to cure the condition can vary. It may depend on whether the TB is latent or active. Tuberculosis (TB) is a ...

Consumption, phthisis, the white plague – a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ice age. Today, the disease – passed from those who are actively sick to ...

TB can be cured, but ridding the body of the bug often takes many months and usually requires taking four or more medicines. In this special briefing, Spotlight zooms in on what makes the TB bacterium ...

Dr. Kayvan Zainabadi (center) is working with colleagues in Pune, India, to test the RNA-based TB diagnostic he is developing. From left: Dr. Mandar Paradkar (co-PI, pediatrician), Vidyulata Kamble, ...

John Green, author of best-selling books including The Fault in Our Stars, could have done anything. He could have written yet another young adult book, or made a new film. But he chose to write a new ...