An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) treatments by helping infected cells die a gentler death, investigators ...

Kenyans no longer have to wait several hours or days to know if they may have tuberculosis (TB), thanks to a new ...

Malawi on April 17 declared an mpox outbreak after detecting its first three confirmed cases, the World Health Organization ...

The 25% reduction in the price of pretomanid could save Global Drug Facility clients upwards of $3 million a year.

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that kills more than a million people worldwide every year. The pathogen that causes the disease, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is deadly in part because of ...

In the aftermath of the magnitude 7.7 and 6.4 earthquakes that struck central Myanmar on March 28, the World Health ...

M4TB, through its participation in ERA4TB – a European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program – is supporting initial development of a long-acting injectable ...

The Massachusetts Public Health Laboratory is accustomed to strong support from the CDC. Now it is learning to go it alone.

Scripps Research team offers insights that could aid development of phage therapies against Mycobacteria The pathogens which ...

The Assistant Minister of Health, Lawrence Ookeditse, says progress against TB is currently under threat from global challenges such as the HIV epidemic and the rising tide of Non-Communicable ...

Taking a single step used to be an achievement for nine-year-old Peter Kairang'a Githinji. Born with a heart that struggled to pump oxygen-rich blood through his tiny body, he would often pause, ...