A woman called Dr Asma Elsony led a tuberculosis programme which saved about 100,000 people from the disease in Sudan, between 1991-2005. She treated almost 230,000 people during this period. Dr Elsony based her programme on diagnosing and treating patients early which she thought...

Researchers have discovered that aggressive therapy could be used to treat drug-resistant TB. They show this could be performed with the use of five drugs. However they did state that the treatment could cost the government more than ten thousand pounds. Read more...

Doctors in Glasgow have diagnosed the first man with the drug resistant XDR TB strain. XDR TB stands for extensively drug resistant TB and it is resistant to three or more anti-TB drugs. Due to this strain being highly contagious the man was put into isolation at the Gartnavel General...