"The Great Shadow," by Susan Wise Bauer, is a sweeping survey of humanity’s relationship to illness over the centuries.

Researchers from the University of Sydney and the Centenary Institute have discovered how a promising class of experimental ...

Scientists have uncovered an elegant biophysical trick that tuberculosis-causing bacteria use to survive inside human cells, ...

Scientists have uncovered an elegant biophysical trick that tuberculosis-causing bacteria use to survive inside human cells, ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) has been linked to a San Francisco high school. The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) issued a health advisory on Jan. 29 about the outbreak, which has ...

Researchers have discovered and characterized at the atomic level a mechanism that enables bacterial pathogens—including ...

San Francisco health officials confirmed 204 latent tuberculosis cases at Archbishop Riordan High School, about 16% of those ...

A little-known form of “sleeping” tuberculosis (TB) that affects millions of Americans is making headlines after a local outbreak at a San Francisco school. The spate of cases is a reminder that ...

Across the spectrum of human afflictions—from cancer to heart disease to rare genetic conditions—medical investigators are continually attempting to break new ground by developing better methods of ...

The San Francisco Public Health Department has launched a "large-scale TB contact investigation" after a tuberculosis outbreak this week at Archbishop Riordan High School infected at least three ...

A vaccine usually trains your immune system to recognize one target. Here, the target is basically “anything that doesn’t ...