There were an estimated 490,000 new cases of drug-resistant TB in 2016. Tuberculosis, a lung disease most often transmitted by breathing infected particles in the air, is the ninth leading cause of ...

A new study uncovers vulnerabilities in drug-resistant TB, offering hope for improved treatments. Rutgers Health research has uncovered why a relatively new antibiotic for tuberculosis (TB) works ...

More than 10 million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB) every year. The disease remains the world’s biggest infectious disease killers with an estimated 1.25 million annual deaths. The disease is ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns of a “ticking time bomb” as tuberculosis is getting increasingly resistant to antibiotics. According to the WHO, almost 500,000 people have a type of TB that ...

A rapid diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) has been approved for the first time by the World Health Organization (WHO). The assay can identify the tuberculosis-causing pathogen Mycobacterium ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today published the new edition of its Model List of Essential Medicines) which includes ground-breaking new treatments for hepatitis C, a variety of cancers ...

LONDON, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Scientists have found an alarming number of cases of the lung disease tuberculosis in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America that are resistant to up to four powerful ...

Rutgers Health research has uncovered why a relatively new antibiotic for tuberculosis (TB) works against multidrug-resistant strains, potentially inspiring improved treatments and drug development ...