The World Health Organization endorsed a new, rapid test for tuberculosis Wednesday that cuts the diagnosis time for patients from months to hours.
An Azerbaijani jail has been hailed for its work treating TB among its inmates.
A person infected with an active case of tuberculosis flew aboard a commercial passenger jet last week, despite the person's presence on a "do-not-board" list maintained by federal health authorities, officials said Tuesday.
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma announced new policies to tackle the country's AIDS epidemic on Tuesday.
An Atlanta, Georgia, lawyer, whose well-publicized bout with tuberculosis caused an international health scare, is suing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for invasion of privacy.
Public health officials in Chicago said Monday that they have tested at least 10 family members of the medical intern linked to a tuberculosis scare in the city.
Public health officials in and around Chicago, Illinois, announced Friday they are offering testing to hundreds of patients and staff members at three area hospitals who may have been exposed to tuberculosis by a doctor who was recently diagnosed with an active case of the disease.
The dismissed volunteer alleges Nadya Suleman is more interested in media than motherhood
More people dying from tuberculosis are infected with HIV than has been previously identified, the World Health Organization says.
Many people think of tuberculosis as being a disease from the past. The truth is far from it: Tuberculosis is mutating into dangerous new strains for which there is no known cure.
Commonly thought of as a Victorian disease, tuberculosis, or TB, remains a persistent global health problem. It is a common disease of the lung that is airborne and highly contagious.
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The global health community has been battling tuberculosis for more than a century, yet it remains a persistent problem.
Using naturally occurring antibacterial compounds found in soil, Rutgers University researchers say they may have discovered a new antibiotic drug
Public health officials in Canada announced Thursday that they were looking for 27 people who may have contracted tuberculosis from an infectious passenger during a bus trip in late August
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Tuberculosis cases continue to fall in the United States, but some immigrants have disturbingly high rates of the disease, according to a study
The World Health Organization urged Asian countries on Monday to take action against the growing threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis
Despite reports in the U.K. press, the singer does not have TB, says her rep
Tests of hundreds of airline passengers show that no one caught tuberculosis while flying earlier this year with an infected man who caused an international health scare
Having traveled about 2 million miles for business during his career, Mark Hill, chief marketing officer for a fine art reproduction company, lists three downsides to flying so much: all the waiting and security hassles; discomfort; and winding up on the same plane with somebody who has a drug-resistant, sometimes fatal, form of tuberculosis.
The Georgia lawyer whose travel to attend his wedding in Greece set off international health alarms because he has a difficult-to-treat form of tuberculosis was released Thursday from the Denver, Colorado, hospital where he had undergone treatment.
Passengers sue TB patient
Eight people who shared a flight with tuberculosis-infected traveler Andrew Speaker on May 24 filed suit Thursday against him in a Canadian court.
The Atlanta lawyer whose tuberculosis diagnosis caused an international health scare is in good condition Thursday, two days after surgery to remove part of his lungs.
Gupta describes TB surgery
TB patient talks about surgery
The Atlanta lawyer with tuberculosis who caused an international health scare after traveling to Europe and back underwent surgery Tuesday to remove the diseased portion of one of his lungs.
Exclusive look at TB surgery
Before the surgery even began, hospital officials spent a lot of time preparing us for the idea that this operation was not only risky for the patient, but also everyone else in the room.
Turn of events in TB case
The Georgia lawyer whose travels while suffering from tuberculosis drew international attention has a more treatable form of the disease than the extensively drug-resistant form previously diagnosed, doctors at a Denver, Colorado, hospital announced Tuesday.
Andrew Speaker and his physicians have decided that the 31-year-old lawyer who is infected with drug-resistant tuberculosis should undergo surgery to remove infected and damaged lung tissue.
The tuberculosis patient who set off an international health scare by flying to Europe then Canada before driving back to the U.S. told lawmakers Wednesday that doctors told him he was not contagious.
The Atlanta lawyer quarantined with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis has a relatively low chance of spreading the disease, possibly allowing him to leave his isolation room for a short time, hospital officials said Tuesda
Border officers will no longer have the discretion to ignore directives barring someone from entering the country after a man crossed the border with a rare form of tuberculosis last month, a Department of Homeland Security official said Tuesday.
A man with a dangerous form of tuberculosis had health officials around the world scrambling Wednesday to find about 80 passengers who sat within five rows of him on two trans-Atlantic flights
Issues of privacy -- and bureaucracy -- have hampered health officials trying to avert an outbreak of the disease
The first two tests of sputum of the 31-year-old lawyer who has extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis have come back negative, the National Jewish Medical and Research Center said Monday.
Andrew Speaker, the Atlanta lawyer who is carrying a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis, has apologized to those he may have infected after he took two international flights during his wedding and honeymoon.
A tuberculosis patient with a rare and dangerous form of the disease arrived at Denver's National Jewish Medical and Research Center for treatment Thursday
Rejecting earlier claims made by a local Greek official, tuberculosis patient Andrew Speaker said he did marry his fiancee in a small Greek town during his trans-Atlantic trip.
A senior House member wants to know how a dangerously infected man managed to get through U.S. Customs and Border Protection even though his passport had been flagged in their computer system.
A man infected with the extensively drug-resistant form of TB known as XDR TB knew he was not supposed to travel overseas but did so anyway, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Julie Gerberding told CNN's "American Morning" on Wednesday.
The highly dangerous form of tuberculosis that has infected a man now in quarantine resists almost all drugs used to treat TB, leaving only less effective options.
Federal health authorities said Tuesday that they are looking for people who may have been exposed to a rare and potentially fatal form of tuberculosis from an infected passenger during two trans-Atlantic flights this month.
Dr. David Olson has had patients in a remote region between Armenia and Azerbaijan. He has treated people in the breakaway Georgian republic of Abkhazia near the Black Sea and in a gulag prison hospital in Siberia. He has had patients in a northwest Uganda town called Arua.
The EPA said Wednesday that initial findings from New Orleans floodwater sampling indicate high levels of E. coli and coliform bacteria as well as lead.
African health ministers have declared a tuberculosis emergency to muster greater political commitment to stop one of the continent's top killers, the United Nations' World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.
A decision to require tuberculosis tests for U.S. Postal Service job applicants in the Washington area has raised . . . concerns about how to curb the growing number of local TB cases without stepp...
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