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Why is tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease, on the rise in the UK?
Tuberculosis (TB) cases rose 13 per cent in England last year, with increases among both immigrants and people born in the UK ...
Public health’s reckoning started with COVID. It was too late.
The field is being taken over by hostile forces. To fight, it must dedicate itself to something larger than saving lives at ...
Museum Curators Discovered a 19th-Century Book Bound With the Skin of a Notorious Killer
Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum (located in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk) just found an anthropodermic book hidden on an office ...
Tuberculosis: An ancient killer we can't seem to defeat
The World Health Organization aims to reduce TB cases by 80% by 2030. The United Kingdom reported a 13% rise in TB cases in ...
Colorado Springs Independent5d
Sites Unseen: From the tuberculosis sanatorium, an architectural style is born
This is the latest installment of a column from John Harner, professor of geography at University of Colorado Colorado ...
The Economist6dOpinion
The head of the Gates Foundation on how to keep helping the poor as aid shrinks
Britain, France and the Netherlands have all announced plans to cut their aid budgets by around a third, and others are ...
The Hindu15d
‘Funding for TB is in crisis,’ says John Green, author of Everything is Tuberculosis
In fact, the richest person in the 19th century, Jay Gould, died of tuberculosis in his forties. It was imagined as a very different disease from the way it is imagined now, as a disease of poverty.
The Sun News16d
19th-century toddler may have died from doctor’s mercury treatment, bones reveal
The bones of a 19th-century toddler show medical experimentation was taking place during the industrialization of France. Zinn, et al (2025) International Journal of Paleopathology The Industrial ...