Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's biggest infectious disease killer, with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) posing a particular threat to global health. A study led by the Swiss Tropical and Public ...

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 ...

Repeated doses of a tuberculosis vaccine lowered insulin needs in patients with two forms of diabetes, new trial data show.

Nitrosamine impurities have now been found in two tuberculosis drugs, prompting the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to clarify how it will handle elevated levels of the potential carcinogen in ...

Tuberculosis is both curable and preventable, yet each year, it still kills more people than any other infectious disease. One reason is that current treatments hinge on rifampicin, an antibiotic that ...

Tufts University researchers’ approach uncovers how TB treatments can best work together at the cellular level to speed better cures Tuberculosis (TB) is the world’s deadliest infectious disease—and ...

Cases of tuberculosis (TB) — an illness that kills more people than any other infectious disease — rose in the U.S. during 2022, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And some ...

Finding out what drugs can be used to treat a patient with tuberculosis (TB) can be sped up by days or weeks, thanks to a new free online tool. The new TB-Profiler tool, developed by a team of ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis has signed a licensing deal to hand over its experimental tuberculosis (TB) drugs to the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, joining a growing Big Pharma retreat from ...

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 ...

More than 10 million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB) every year. The disease remains the world’s biggest infectious disease killers with an estimated 1.25 million annual deaths. The disease is ...