Patients with suspected tuberculosis (TB) require special precautions in healthcare facilities, and cases of TB have been rising in the US over the past several years. These precautions include ...

Caitlin Dugdale, MD, MSc, and Kimon Zachary, MD, physicians in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and assistant professors of Medicine at Harvard Medical ...

Law enforcement officials in Washington state have finally apprehended a Tacoma woman with tuberculosis who has refused treatment and isolation for over a year and has spent the past several months ...

TACOMA, Wash. — A Tacoma woman who has been avoiding treatment and isolation for tuberculosis (TB) for more than a year has been arrested so she can receive medical treatment in jail. Pierce County ...

DENVER — The Atlanta lawyer quarantined with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis has a relatively low chance of spreading the disease, possibly allowing him to leave his isolation room for a short time ...

In response to nosocomial outbreaks of tuberculosis among patients and health care workers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released tuberculosis control guidelines in 1990. These ...

A study funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Sir Halley Stewart Trust has shown that opening windows can be more effective than using mechanical ventilation at reducing the risk of transmission of ...