The Ministry of Health has launched a tuberculosis community awareness, screening and testing (CAST) campaign to curb the spread of the disease in the country. Tuberculosis (TB) CAST campaign ...

TB remains one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases, yet the origins of M. tuberculosis are still not fully understood. In a new study published in PLOS Pathogens, research led by the ...

The study explains why treatments for many autoimmune and inflammatory diseases raise the risk of contracting TB -- and also upends long-held assumptions about what kicks off an immune response.

The omnipresence of tuberculosis (TB) in the pages of history and literature is testimony to how the disease has plagued generations across the world and continues to be a major problem even today.

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Beat Tuberculosis, has become the world's first initiative in the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) for all population groups, influencing the World Health Organization policy on ...

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 ...

The BBC unmasks, for the first time, how the late Nigerian televangelist TB Joshua faked the miracles that drew millions of people to his church. The preacher, who is accused of widespread abuse ...