An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) treatments by helping infected cells die a gentler death, investigators ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world's most common infectious diseases. Although infection with the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacterium primarily affects the lungs, up to 25% of all infected people ...

Tuberculosis cases are still widespread in India, while lung cancer cases are steadily rising. To make matters more challenging, the two conditions often present with similar symptoms, leading to ...

HUNDREDS of Brits are dying from a Victorian lung disease which is sometimes mistaken for a smoker’s cough and is not ...

More than 8 million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, the highest number recorded since the U.N. health agency began keeping track. About 1 ...

A new study presented today at ADLM 2026 in Anaheim, California found that a simple blood test could accurately identify tuberculosis (TB) — a leading cause of death worldwide — among patients with ...

A single Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacterium is small enough to ride an exhaled droplet all the way down into the deepest pocket of the lung, where a single layer of alveolar cells is all that ...

The South Carolina Department of Public Health is investigating a tuberculosis exposure at Summerville High School and is ...

In a 2026 study, colleagues and I found that 574 people in England were diagnosed with TB only after death between 2010 and ...

Ocular TB is a rare eye disease due to infection from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the same bacterium that causes tuberculosis, commonly known as TB. TB symptoms usually start in the lungs, but they ...