New Scientist

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New developments in a 10,000-year-old cold case have upended our ideas about how and when tuberculosis began infecting humans – and offered hope for a better vaccine Humans living 100,000 years ago in ...
BMJ Global Health

Economic costs of TB and HIV in high-TB-burden countries

Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant health burden in 25 low- and middle-income countries. Despite TB being ...
The BMJOpinion

Extrapulmonary tuberculosis is understudied in preventive vaccine trials

A consistent upward trend has been seen in extrapulmonary tuberculosis cases in the past five years, constituting nearly 24% ...
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South Africa, Mozambique are global tuberculosis hotspots

Africa is making progress in reducing TB. But missed cases and drug-resistant infections are complicating the fight, particularly in South Africa and Mozambique. Experts say that while some progress ...
Forbes

New Tongue-Swab TB Test Could Help Eradicate The Disease, WHO Says

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Members of the Tuberculosis (TB) Association of India carry placards as they take part in an ...
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AMD, Broadcom, and Nvidia join hyperscalers to define optical scale-up interconnect of the future for AI clusters — Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI to benefit as speeds ...

As AI clusters grow larger, they begin to use optical interconnects for scale-out connectivity. However, the day when they require optical interconnects for scale-up connectivity may be approaching ...
NPR

New study estimates 3 million cases of this killer disease are misdiagnosed each year

Tuberculosis has earned the undesirable distinction of being the world's top infectious disease killer — a mantle it took back from COVID in 2023. TB claimed the lives of 1.23 million people in 2024 ...
Los Angeles Times

Tuberculosis outbreak reported at Catholic high school in Bay Area. Cases statewide are climbing

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. An outbreak of tuberculosis was reported at a private Catholic high school in the Bay Area. Cases of TB have been ...
The New Zealand Herald

NZ’s finance industry is required by law to treat customers fairly – but how do we define ‘fair’?

Since March last year, the financial sector has been governed by the Conduct of Financial Institutions regime. Photo / DepositPhotos Most of us would agree fairness is a good guiding principle in life ...
IEEE

Coupling In silico and In vitro Mechanistic Models to Define Vitamin D3 Immunomodulation of IL-12 and Nitric Oxide in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection

Abstract: Tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), is a highly infectious disease mainly affecting the lungs. Macrophages are key phagocytic immune cells and the preferred hosts for ...
PBS

Global tuberculosis cases rise to a record, but deaths fall, reports WHO

NEW YORK (AP) — The number of people diagnosed with tuberculosis worldwide rose again last year, eclipsing 2023's record total, World Health Organization officials said Wednesday. About 8.3 million ...