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 ...

There were multiple challenges in every step of her operation and also the subsequent treatment. The multi-disciplinary team, led by Neurosurgeon Dr. Rathijit Mitra, used the latest techniques to ...

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 ...

NEWPORT, Delaware (WPVI) -- The CDC is working to respond to a multi-state outbreak of tuberculosis, and Delaware is included. More than 100 people in multiple states have been allegedly exposed ...

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 ...

Aryavrat, 23, a resident of Panipat district, was diagnosed with tuberculosis of the spine, which has completely destroyed his vertebrae. Affected by one of the infectious disease, spinal tuberculosis ...

Delaware and federal health officials are investigating reports of patients contracting tuberculosis following certain spinal surgeries, part of an outbreak of more than 100 cases nationwide. Richard ...

Andrew Speaker, the tuberculosis patient who sparked an international health scare in May, said he would undergo surgery Tuesday to remove the upper lobe of his right lung. Speaker, a 31-year-old ...

While the government is ambitious about eradicating TB by the year 2025 the ground reality is that the number of people suffering from primary multidrug-resistant TB (MDR TB) is on the rise. Initially ...

Study design: Pott's paraplegic patients with severe spinal deformity were reviewed retrospectively after being treated with chemotherapy and/or decompressive surgery. Objectives: To determine the ...

A Michigan woman has died just months following an elective back surgery after doctors discovered the bone graft material used in her surgery was contaminated with tuberculosis. The material came from ...