Over the last few months, a woman from Tacoma, Washington has been widely featured in local and national media, including the New York Times, for refusing to take medication for active tuberculosis ...

Community health agency officials are monitoring an active TB case in Branch County with strict treatment and quarantine to ...

Patient choice in taking treatment is framed by the physiological and psychological impacts of the disease and also by the social and cultural structures in which the person is immersed. [68] Patient ...

A new article published in Nature offers a promising path toward a shorter, more effective treatment for tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial disease that affects millions worldwide. Veronique Dartois, Ph.D ...

Study: 1 in 10 TB patients in India also has hepatitis B, and 6% have hepatitis C, raising liver injury risks and worsening outcomes. Researchers urge routine hepatitis screening and integrated TB ...

USAID funding cuts for tuberculosis programs have resulted in an estimated 11,000 additional deaths. The cuts, implemented shortly after Trump's inauguration, could lead to a surge in global ...

Handheld devices like this one, used for testing blood sugar levels, could help TB patients monitor their own drug levels. Andrey_Popov/Shutterstock Imagine the ...

Tuberculosis (TB) patients who smoke will recover far more quickly if they can quit—and help could come from their mobile phones, according to new research. As part of the trial, patients were sent ...

Mizoram recorded 71 tuberculosis (TB) deaths and detected more than 1,050 new cases of the disease during the first six ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of death in Papua new Guinea (PNG), with the country having the highest proportion of children in the world affected by TB. In 2014, a TB emergency was declared, ...

TACOMA –On Monday, the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department announced it was monitoring a patient with active tuberculosis who had declined treatment. Court records reveal the woman has not followed ...

Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are likely taking a collective sigh of relief. This just in from The Scientist intern Kelly Chi: Today (July 3) representatives from the ...