The Department of Health (DOH), in partnership with the Caloocan City Government and other organizations, launched a health ...

Consumption, phthisis, the white plague—a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ...

World Down Syndrome Day is right around the corner, and I invite you to join us in celebrating on March 21! This special day ...

World TB Day is March 24. We bet you thought tuberculosis or TB was a disease of the past. Guess what, it’s not. Except for during the COVID-19 pandemic, TB is the world’s biggest infectious ki ...

Masesi Ndlovu has been living with TB for two years and relapsed recently due to smoking. Read more about her story here.

Reports of TB date back to around 410-400 B.C.E., when the physician Hippocrates termed the disease phthisis, an archaic word that means a progressive “wasting away,” due to the way people with the ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The World Health Organization estimates more than a million people died from tuberculosis ...

In the early 20th century, these Black nurses came to New York City from the Jim Crow South to join the fight against the ...

The system of finding, diagnosing and treating TB has collapsed in dozens of countries across Africa and Asia since President Trump ordered the aid freeze.

The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has played a pivotal role in the resurgence of TB. Cases increased globally by 4.6% from 2020 to 2023, reversing decades of steady disease declines. In the US, TB cases rose by ...