Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about health and U.K. health policy. Although it's often thought of as a disease of the past, tuberculosis is still found ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When most of us think of serious diseases that kill millions of people, the ones that come to mind are often the ones that get the ...

A protein that acts as a 'control switch,' preventing Mycobacterium tuberculosis from accessing the energy sources it needs ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a confounding scourge. It's the leading cause of death from infectious disease in the world, and yet it's estimated that those deaths represent perhaps 5% of infections with ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - For the first time, tuberculosis infections rivaled HIV/AIDS as a leading cause of death from infectious diseases, the World Health Organization said in a report released on ...

Tuberculosis (TB) was the leading cause of death in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. By 1900, TB—which usually attacks the lungs but can affect almost any part of the body—had killed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kansas is dealing with one of the largest outbreaks of tuberculosis recorded in a single year in the United States since the 1950s ...

MANILA, Philippines — One out of five deaths among people living with human immunodeficiency (PLHIV) is due to tuberculosis (TB), the Department of Health (DOH) said on Sunday. The DOH said ...

Researchers at the University of Surrey have identified a protein that acts as a control switch, preventing Mycobacterium ...