Hospitals and Healthcare

Cases of tuberculosis have been detected in South Australia over the past 17 months. Here’s what you need to know about the disease.

COVID has shown us we can develop a range of safe and effective vaccines. Now we need to do the same for TB.

Tuberculosis is a global threat and a public health concern on a scale similar to COVID-19.

The UN’s first High-Level Meeting on tuberculosis is a positive step – the way TB has been neglected is a scandal, writes Nick Herbert, co-chairman of the Global TB Caucus

Standard doses of two TB drugs were insufficient in African subjects also infected with H.I.V., a study finds. Experts say treatment guidelines should be revised.

Diagnosing TB, a major killer, can be cumbersome and inaccurate. But a new way to detect byproducts of the bacteria in urine may change that.

Seventy years ago Australia was facing a public health crisis - tuberculosis (TB). The contagious bacterial disease was spread from person to person through microscopic droplets released into the air when someone with the untreated, active form of tuberculosis coughed, spoke, sneezed, laughed or sang and it especially affected the lungs. In 1951 about three people in 1000 suffered from T.B. in Australia. In Victoria, legislation enacted at the end of 1951 allowed health authorities to require specified groups or persons in an occupational or geographic area to undergo an x-ray but mass screening generally remained voluntary. By the end of the 1950s Australia had almost defeated T.B.

Why aren’t outbreaks in poor countries treated the same way as those in rich ones?