Fifty years ago when René Dubos published his classic essays on tuberculosis (TB) -- past and then-present -- they were a series of previous accomplishments and great expectations for the future. [1] ...

In September, the Obama administration will unveil The National Action Plan to Combat Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (TB). I commend the administration for developing an action plan to address this ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Tuberculosis killed 1.6 million people in 2017 — more than 4,000 each day. Among its deadly attributes, TB is ...

Last month I attended the Pacific Health Summit in Seattle. It is a pretty exclusive venue (aspiring to be the “Davos of Health Care”) attended by senior representatives from the world of health care ...

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 ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today issued new recommendations designed to speed up detection and improve treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). The recommendations call for use ...

Multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis is defined as disease caused by strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that are at least resistant to treatment with isoniazid and rifampicin; extensively ...

There are 500,000 more cases of tuberculosis worldwide than previously estimated, according to a new report released today by the World Health Organization. The WHO’s Global Tuberculosis Report 2014 ...

Dhaka, Bangladesh – MDR-TB is Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis. As the name suggests it is much harder to treat than “regular” TB. There are several different kinds of “first line” drugs that can be ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Findings from a recent study support substituting bedaquiline for second-line injectables in treatment for ...