These are some of the most common questions surrounding this disease. The last Monday, the World Tuberculosis Day was celebrated with the aim of raising awareness about the need to raise more funds to ...

With 5,000 cases in North America and 25,000 globally, this once obscure disease is now familiar to most Canadians. A welcome ...

Although the disease is now treatable, the emergence of drug-resistant strains could complicate care. And millions of ...

On March 24, 1882, a German physician and researcher, Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (1814-1910), announced the discovery of ...

This day’s significance also lies in the discovery of bacterium that causes TB by Dr. Robert Koch in 1882. His discovery opened the way for diagnosing and curing this disease.

Tuberculosis is the leading infectious cause of death around the world, outpaced only by COVID-19 during the first three ...

As of early 2025, tuberculosis cases are increasing in the U.S. This disease causes significant lung damage and, if not ...

In 2023, after a brief hiatus, tuberculosis regained from COVID its status as the world’s deadliest infectious disease—a title it has held for most of what we know of human history. Some people die of ...

Cardinal Kurt Koch, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, reflected Tuesday on the great challenge of illness and suffering for Pope Francis as he approaches a month ...

New immunotherapies have the potential to mediate a sustained remission from certain autoimmune diseases. This has been referred to as achieving an ‘immune reset’ in patients. Here ...

It is more difficult to diagnose a cat with feline atopic skin syndrome than it is to diagnose a dog with atopic dermatitis, but why?