Tuberculous peritonitis occurs when tuberculosis (TB) spreads to the protective lining of your abdomen. This can cause abdominal pain and swelling, but early antibiotic treatment can help. Tuberculous ...

Causes and symptoms of abdominal TB: It's a slow-burning threat you cannot ignore Abdominal tuberculosis is a form of extrapulmonary TB caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, affecting the intestines, ...

When TB affects the kidneys, symptoms are often different than when it affects the lungs. When symptoms appear, they often resemble those of a urinary tract infection. Timely treatment is important to ...

Experts emphasise that while natural therapies may help boost immunity and reduce symptoms, they should never replace conventional treatment. Here's a closer look at what works, and what doesn't, when ...

THE physician, the teacher, the administrator, or the member of the Public Health and Hygiene Committee, though he has had at his disposal innumerable text-books, papers, pamphlets, reports of ...

Background Nutrition is a critical determinant of tuberculosis (TB), providing a protective effect at high body mass index ...

Half the male tuberculosis deaths in India are caused by smoking, and three quarters of the smokers who become ill with tuberculosis (TB) would not have done so if they had not smoked. These are the ...

Tuberculosis, or TB, is an infectious disease that mainly affects the lungs but can also spread to other parts of the body. It is caused by bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis and spreads from ...

Scrofula occurs when tuberculosis bacteria affects an area outside the lungs. The main symptom is swelling on one side of the neck due to swollen lymph nodes. Scrofula is uncommon in the United States ...

An international study in this week's issue of THE LANCET shows that smokers in India are four times as likely as non-smokers to die of tuberculosis. Almost 200,000 people a year in India die from ...