THE death rate from tuberculosis in the United States has fallen from about 200 per 100,000 population in 1900 to 4.3 in 1963. The disease is no longer the frightful menace that it was at the turn of ...

The resurgence of surgery as an adjunct to chemotherapy has reshaped the management of drug-resistant tuberculosis. In patients with multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant disease who fail ...

The remarkable accomplishments of the antituberculous drugs, which today bring 80 per cent of the patients to the sputum-negative state, after six months of original treatment, have, in turn, affected ...

DENVER — An Atlanta attorney will have surgery next month to remove lung tissue infected with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, hospital officials said today. Andrew Speaker will have surgery ...

The number of patients reporting tuberculosis symptoms after surgeries involving recalled human tissue has spiked above 70 in the nation and to 30 in Indiana, with at least two suspected cases in ...

A 25-year-old woman in her second trimester had progressive numbness from the waist down, which progressed to a loss of mobility and control over bladder and bowel functions. Gradually, she became bed ...