Tuberculosis kills 1.3 million people each year, making it the deadliest infectious disease in the world, write KJ Seung and.

World leaders are dismantling global health programs and cutting back foreign aid. Will an extraordinary new medicine be able to outpace the damage?

Pune: BJ Medical College and Sassoon General Hospital will now undertake ‘targeted' genome sequencing of 50 tuberculosis ...

"We need to design services around people, not the disease," rightly said Dr Nittaya Phanuphak. Unless point-of-care health technologies are deployed for those who are most-in-need in a person-centred ...

Cancer statistics are equally grim. The Kenya National Cancer Registry estimates 42,000 new cancer cases and 27,000 deaths ...

Beyond bringing back diseases like measles and TB, defunding NIH will cost the United States its leading role in global ...

S ince they were first deployed almost 100 years ago, antibiotics – originally discovered in soil – have saved millions of ...

THE United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday approved Gilead Sciences' lenacapavir, a drug to be injected twice annually, for preventing HIV infection in adults and adolescents at ...

On World TB Day in March 2024, the he­­alth ministry announced grim statistics: newly notified cases increased from 11,050 in ...

The approval could slow new infections and move the world closer to eliminating HIV. But huge obstacles remain.

Cancer patients say they’ve grown sicker since Argentina’s radical libertarian President Javier Milei took his chainsaw to ...

Cornell researchers have identified an antibiotic, rifampin, that is 99.9% effective against Salmonella Typhi, the bacterium ...