The routine use of steroids to treat tuberculosis may help reduce deaths from all types of the disease, according to a new review of existing research. The routine use of steroids to treat ...

Tuberculosis (TB) may last for several months, with treatment. The length of time it takes to cure the condition can vary. It may depend on whether the TB is latent or active. Tuberculosis (TB) is a ...

Infants who received BCG [bacille Calmette-Guérin] vaccination at birth had protection against tuberculosis into early childhood, but that protection largely disappeared in only a few years, according ...

People in South Africa are suffering from the deadliest type of tuberculosis (TB), and researchers say treatment failure is not to blame. XDR-TB is a rare but extremely fatal type of tuberculosis that ...

Patients crippled by tuberculosis are treated outdoors in the snow at the Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital in Nottinghamshire ...

India, April 30 -- "Hello! I'm Deepti Chavan and I am an MDR-TB survivor. I know how it feels to hear the words ...

This story has been updated to clarify some CDC statistics. An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in the state's history, and while the risk of contracting the bacterial ...