Why respiratory infections are especially dangerous for older adults, according to a doctor
In light of Pope Francis’ pneumonia diagnosis, Dr. Leana Wen explains why older adults are especially at risk for serious ...
Vatican Authorities Say Pope Francis Has Pneumonia in Both Lungs. How Worrying Is That?
LONDON — Vatican officials said late Tuesday that Pope Francis had developed pneumonia in both lungs, further complicating ...
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Q&A: Lung doctor who worked in the hospital now treating Pope Francis explains his illness
Pope Francis was in pain, swollen and walking very little. Italian pulmonologist Dr. Barbara Moscatelli says that this is ...
Immigrant status, homelessness or prison ties to TB outbreak should be made public | Opinion
The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment shouldn’t let politics undermine public faith in their work. From David ...
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The Kansas City TB outbreak shows the value of U.S. government health funding
The tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is not, in fact, the largest in U.S. history. But it does offer an ...
What is ‘double pneumonia’, the condition that’s put Pope Francis in hospital?
“Double pneumonia” is not an official medical term. It may be being used to describe two different aspects of Pope Francis’s ...
Novel antibiotic BTZ-043 can also target TB bacteria hiding in dead lung tissue
Every year, 10 million people contract tuberculosis (TB), a disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and approximately 1.5 million patients succumb to the disease. Treatment ...
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Novel antibiotic BTZ-043 also reaches tuberculosis bacteria hiding in dead lung tissue
Around 1.5 million patients succumb to the disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). The novel ...
12 Facts About Tuberculosis, the Victorian “Robber of Youth”
Tuberculosis may seem like a historic malady, but it’s still the world’s deadliest infectious disease. Here’s what you need ...
‘A story of triumph’: How work of the Black Angels helped lead to a cure for tuberculosis
Virginia Allen is one of two of Staten Island's surviving Black Angels. She started working at Sea View, caring for incurable ...