A tuberculosis scare on Long Island led to more than 100 students and staff at a high school to get tested following an ...

Coughing, with blood-tinged sputum (phlegm that comes from deep inside the lungs); fever, weight loss and night sweats are ...

Students and staff at Sachem High School East are on edge after being informed they may have been exposed to tuberculosis.

Hundreds of students were tested for a life-threatening illness at a New York school after one confirmed case.A student at ...

The Sachem Central School District has advised some community members to undergo a skin test or blood test after being ...

Students and teachers at a New York high school may have been exposed to tuberculosis, a spokesperson for the Suffolk County ...

Each year, tuberculosis kills some 1.25 million people ... "it can be difficult for patients to remain adherent for such a long time, especially when the drugs often have unwanted side effects ...

This new street name honors the long-overlooked black nurses who risked their own lives to care for tuberculosis patients at Staten Island’s Sea View Hospital in the first half of the 20th ...

That means that it sickens us slower because it takes a long time to overwhelm the body’s defenses. This is one of the reasons why tuberculosis used to be a narratively convenient disease ...

A tuberculosis outbreak at a Long Beach hotel has caused the health department to declare a public health emergency, though the City Council will need to ratify the decision. The city had ...

Everything Is Tuberculosis takes on the history of the human response to and treatment of tuberculosis. The book, Green says, was partially inspired by a young boy named Henry whom the author met ...

Unlike the flu or COVID-19, tuberculosis has a long lead time. The bacteria that causes the disease can live in the human respiratory tract for many years, or even decades, before becoming active ...