Shorter duration, fully oral treatment regimens for tuberculosis (TB) are now recommended for most adults and children. Updated joint guidelines from the American Thoracic Society, the CDC, European ...

In a recent study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, researchers reported the TB-PRACTECAL clinical trial outcomes, which evaluated the efficacy and safety of oral bedaquiline, linezolid, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The CDC, IDSA and other agencies created updated guidance for treating drug-susceptible and drug-resistant TB.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently updated its consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis (TB) and undernutrition. Central to this paradigm shift is the pioneering research conducted by Dr ...

Treating all household contacts of someone with tuberculosis (TB) helped prevent active TB disease across age groups in the real world, but the effectiveness was highest when treating individuals who ...

When you have a contagious disease like tuberculosis (TB), refusing treatment and refusing to isolate are not personal choices. Such choices affect not only you but also everyone around you, at least ...

Adjunctive corticosteroids may reduce mortality from all forms of tuberculosis by 17%, no matter which organ group was affected, according to a meta-analysis. Julia A. Critchley, DPhil, from the ...

Our lungs are amazing, quietly doing their thing to keep us breathing and alive. But when they are compromised by disease, the effects can be devastating. Two of the diseases that can have a serious ...