An international trial exploring the effectiveness of tuberculosis (TB) treatment in children has led to a change in the World Health Organization's global guidelines for managing the disease. A ...

This post by Meghan Werft was originally published on Global Citizen on January 6, 2016. After “pharma-bro” Martin Shkreli hiked drugs prices to ridiculous amounts last year, it’s nice to hear about a ...

Because it can be difficult to detect tuberculosis in young children, the disease may be dangerously advanced by the time it's diagnosed. A new blood test, however, is claimed to detect the presence ...

You may have seen reports of an outbreak of tuberculosis in Kansas City and thought: Oh, no! Is this the start of something bigger? Do you need to worry? First, the facts: The tuberculosis outbreak ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Previous tuberculosis in Gambian children was significantly associated with impaired lung function and ...

The notification rate of tuberculosis (TB) went up from 2 to 2.5 per 100,000 population. But overall, numbers of notified paediatric cases remain relatively low across the region. As young children ...

A new study has assessed TB infection and active TB disease during children's first decade of life in high-burden settings. The new results found that there was a consistently high rate of annual TB ...