The bacteria that cause tuberculosis harbor some natural resistance to fluoroquinolones, but biophysicists from Johns Hopkins in Baltimore may have discovered why that is and how to make the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators, drug companies, philanthropists and advocates announced a new alliance on Thursday to speed tuberculosis drugs to market, a day after cancer researchers and ...

For 2007, the WHO estimated 511,000 cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB, representing approximately 5% of all TB cases worldwide. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) strains have been detected in at ...

Recently, after years of pressure, advocates including author and philanthropist John Green scored victory against Johnson & Johnson over a patent on a key tuberculosis drug. The campaigners hope the ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global health challenge, affecting millions each year. In 2023, an estimated 10.8 million people contracted TB, with 1.25 million deaths, according to the World Health ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's deadliest infectious disease—and one of the hardest to cure. Standard treatment requires a cocktail of multiple drugs over at least six months, and one in five ...

Patients who have drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) have a similar microbiological response to bedaquiline-based second-line medications as patients with drug-sensitive TB taking first-line regimens, ...

TB is an infectious disease that is far from being eradicated and controlled. The treatment for TB is associated with noncompliance to therapy because it consists of a long-term treatment with a ...

LONDON — Drug-resistant tuberculosis is spreading even faster than experts had feared, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday. The rate of TB patients infected with the drug-resistant strain ...

* Drugs could be used to fight dangerous forms of TB * Compounds already proven in humans By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, July 2 (Reuters) - Drugs used to treat Parkinson's disease show promise as a new ...

In February 1906, teburculosis killed 372 people across the state. A monthly newsletter from the Indiana Department of Health noted the disease, labeled as “consumption” in several references, created ...