Tuberculosis (TB) is at once a textbook disease and a political reality: a bacterial process that is microbiologically well understood — and yet cannot simply be “treated away” globally. Derek Sloan, ...

TB Traveler Exposes Diagnosis Problems The Georgia man who flew to Europe while infected with a dangerous form of tuberculosis reveals a fundamental problem in controlling the disease. It takes ...

In 2018, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged to eradicate tuberculosis (TB) from the country by the end of 2025, five years ahead of the global target set by the World Health Organisation.

ATS 2007, SAN FRANCISCO -- Extremely drug resistant TB, or XDR-TB, is a serious problem in India, according to a study presented at the American Thoracic Society 2007 International Conference, on ...

Cases of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in the former Soviet Union are rising at an alarming rate and pose a global problem, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. Subscribe to read this story ...

SEOUL, South Korea — Visiting North Korea is by no means easy. To get in, you typically need to bring an asset that the country’s ruling elite desperately needs — such as hard cash to spend on a ...

John Green is the author of several books, including “The Fault in Our Stars” and “The Anthropocene Reviewed,” and is a longtime supporter of Partners in Health. Last year, my brother, Hank, was ...

GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - China, saddled with the world's second largest tuberculosis burden after India, is fighting an uphill battle against drug-resistant forms of the disease which will only ...