Researchers at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences have developed a new inhalable form of tuberculosis (TB) treatment that could significantly reduce the burden of current therapy.

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Anyone who attended St. Michael’s Catholic Church in the Paradise Hills area of San Diego from Sept. 22 to Dec. 1, 2024, is being warned they could have potentially been ...

The FDA has approved a new drug that promises a simpler and far more effective treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis. But not everyone is celebrating. Doctors Without Borders has concerns about a ...

There were an estimated 490,000 new cases of drug-resistant TB in 2016. Tuberculosis, a lung disease most often transmitted by breathing infected particles in the air, is the ninth leading cause of ...

Tuberculosis is both curable and preventable, yet each year, it still kills more people than any other infectious disease. One reason is that current treatments hinge on rifampicin, an antibiotic that ...

A recent international study found alarmingly high levels drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis (TB) in a number of countries. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...

An international research team headed by scientists at the University of British Columbia has demonstrated how a novel semi-synthetic compound derived from sanguinarine (SG), an alkaloid extracted ...

A new study uncovers vulnerabilities in drug-resistant TB, offering hope for improved treatments. Rutgers Health research has uncovered why a relatively new antibiotic for tuberculosis (TB) works ...

LANTANA, Fla. – It started with a cough, an autumn hack that refused to go away. Then came the fevers. They bathed and chilled the skinny frame of Oswaldo Juarez, a 19-year-old Peruvian visiting to ...

Tuberculosis remains one of the top infectious disease killers worldwide, a challenge amplified by drug-resistant forms of the disease. Now, in a major step forward, an international clinical trial ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns of a “ticking time bomb” as tuberculosis is getting increasingly resistant to antibiotics. According to the WHO, almost 500,000 people have a type of TB that ...