Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about health and U.K. health policy. Although it's often thought of as a disease of the past, tuberculosis is still found ...

The definition of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) has been revised by the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Global TB Programme, who have also defined pre-XDR-TB for the first time, ...

Researchers have succeeded in identifying and synthesizing a group of molecules that can act against the cause of tuberculosis in a new way. They describe that the so-called callyaerins act against ...

Incident cases of tuberculosis drive the ongoing epidemic. However, the accuracy of the data on the incidence of tuberculosis is poor. 1,2 In a randomized, controlled trial of annual community-wide ...