South Africa is trialling a cheap, portable TB test that costs a third of the current standard. But the new test can’t detect ...

Although experts frequently assert that nearly 1.7 billion people carry dormant tuberculosis worldwide, that figure may be a “gross exaggeration” of the real threat, a recent study concludes. The ...

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 ...

Though TB remains the world's top infectious disease killer, there's cause for hope, Fred Hutch Cancer Center experts say.

A rapid diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) has been approved for the first time by the World Health Organization (WHO). The assay can identify the tuberculosis-causing pathogen Mycobacterium ...

Currently, Kansas is facing one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history. As of Jan. 24, 67 cases of active ...

After The Times published an interview with John Green about his new book on tuberculosis, many readers wrote to share their families’ history with the disease. Compiled by Stephanie Nolen Recently, ...

South Africa is trialling a cheap, portable TB test that costs a third of the current standard. But the new test can't detect drug-resistant TB, raising questions about how much diagnostic accuracy a ...