SEATTLE, WA – Despite decades of research on the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), scientists have not had a comprehensive understanding of how the bacterium is wired to adapt to changing ...

The typical dose of a medication considered pivotal in treating tuberculosis effectively is much too low to account for modern-day physiques, researchers said. The typical dose of a medication ...

When it comes to global health, it is usually the most sensational cases -- such as West Nile Virus or SARS disease -- that grab the public's attention. But our focus on the scariest outbreaks also ...

Tuberculosis remains a major global health threat. Although more than 3 billion doses of the BCG vaccine have been administered to fight tuberculosis, the ability of the BCG vaccine to protect adults ...

The Open Source Drug Discovery Project is applying open source principles to smash barriers and accelerate drug research for diseases like TB which still kills 1.7 million people a year. The Open ...

World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, to be observed on Friday March 24, brings back painful recollection of how I almost lost my life to this dangerous but highly curable disease. My journey stared in 2011 ...

The December 2007 issue of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology published the discovery of a half-million-year-old fossil of Homo erectus in Turkey. This fossil of our ancestor revealed ...

While all eyes have been focused on the race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, other researchers have been furiously working on another way to defeat the coronavirus. It's a vaccine with a very long ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a new antibiotic that, when combined with two existing antibiotics, can tackle the most formidable and deadly forms of tuberculosis. The trio of ...

DALLAS – July 30, 2009 – The typical dose of a medication considered pivotal in treating tuberculosis effectively is much too low to account for modern-day physiques, UT Southwestern Medical Center ...