Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) refers to coordinated strategies for the targeted, evidence-based, and safe use of ...

Over the course of five years, the researchers studied patients with HIV-related sepsis in eastern Africa, discovering that ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is once again the infectious disease responsible for the most deaths worldwide, according to a Tuesday announcement from the World Health Organization (WHO). The contagious disease ...

Using human stem cells, scientists have created a miniature lung that mimics breathing and TB infection, opening new ...

Health officials are investigating a reported case of tuberculosis involving an individual at D.H. Conley High School in ...

Pitt County Health Director Wes Gray says the department was notified of the case involving a D.H. Conley High School student ...

I knew of John Green from his excellent teen novels "The Fault in Our Stars," "Looking for Alaska" and "Turtles All the Way Down." When I heard he had written "Everything is Tuberculosis: The History ...

The outbreak started last January. Kansas health officials say numbers are trending downward, but they still expect to find more cases. This story has been updated to reflect that this is one of the ...

Health officials have confirmed almost 50 cases of tuberculosis in Wyandotte County, more than in all of Kansas last year. But the public risk remains low. The Kansas Department of Health and ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis and predominantly affects the lungs, resulting in extensive tissue pathology. The disease is particularly ...

Tuberculosis is one of the oldest diseases in human history – and it still kills more than a million people every year. In a new book, The Fault in Our Stars author John Green argues the infection ...