Consumption, phthisis, the white plague—a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ...
A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...
Reports of TB date back to around 410-400 B.C.E., when the physician Hippocrates termed the disease phthisis, an archaic word that means a progressive “wasting away,” due to the way people with the ...
In the early 20th century, these Black nurses came to New York City from the Jim Crow South to join the fight against the ...
The Trump administration's sweeping foreign aid cuts will send tuberculosis cases and deaths soaring around the world, ...
An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas, and two nearby counties ...
With one of the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in US history, Kansas has more to worry about than its recent Super Bowl ...
Slashing tuberculosis aid could endanger millions of lives abroad, health authorities say, with potential consequences for ...
Our state continues to see new laws introduced each year that diminish funding and the authority of health departments — just ...
Why doesn’t the public know more about the troubling tuberculosis outbreak in eastern Kansas? The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) is tracking 384 individuals with suspected ...