NEW YORK (AP) — The number of people diagnosed with tuberculosis worldwide rose again last year, eclipsing 2023’s record total, World Health Organization officials said Wednesday. About 8.3 million ...

As it does every autumn, the New York Academy of Medicine conducted a notable series of lectures and hospital demonstrations for the benefit of practicing physicians during the past fortnight. The ...

On Sept. 25, Oakland University gathered for a crash course on writing books, being a parent and navigating life with diseases as John Green visited campus. While not everything was tuberculosis in ...

There are three active cases of tuberculosis in Maine as of this week as TB continues to increase across the country, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported, according to the ...

THE annual meeting of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis and the conference is still in full swing, though by the time that this goes to press most of the work, except the ...

Discussions of such disturbing national health issues as the reemergence of tuberculosis and cholera are among the highlights of the American Society for Microbiology's 93rd general meeting. At press ...

Tuberculosis antagonists last week at last had something to say more audible than the claims of the cancer, heart disease, pneumonia and even leprosy people. If their demands for public attention and ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci detailed his extensive career leading the U.S. through multiple health crises in his role as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and emphasized ...

A few years ago, renowned author John Green met a boy named Henry at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. Henry was small and, at first glance, looked about 9 years old to Green. Everyone at the ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Dec. 31, 2025. Click here for that audio. Author John Green won acclaim for fiction like “The Fault in Our Stars,” a novel partially inspired by the life ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a near-perfect predator. In 1882, Robert Koch, the physician who discovered the microbe, told a room full of scientists that it caused one in seven of all deaths. In 2023 ...