The World Health Organization is marking World Tuberculosis Day Monday (March 24), calling on individuals to work on the elimination of the roots of the tuberculosis epidemic to fight the disease.

An estimated 1.5 million people died from tuberculosis in 2006 and a report in the New England Journal of Medicine says. Africa may be facing the worst tuberculosis epidemic since the invention of antibiotics

A new study reveals that some asthmatic patients still do not receive prescriptions for the inhalers that experts have been recommending since the national guidelines were issued more than 10 years ago.

The study, conducted by Dr. Rajesh Balkrishnanand colleagues from Ohio State University, analyzed data from more than 800 million asthma-related doctor visits between 1998 and 2004 from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey

A happy marriage is good for your blood pressure, but a stressed one can be bad for your blood pressure, a preliminary study suggests. The study, published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine included 204 married people and 99 single men and women.

Participants were 20-68 years old, with an average age of 31. Most of the singles - 89 percent - had never been married and none was living with a partner. Married participants had been married for eight years, on average

A groundbreaking study has revealed why some people are able to recover from a traumatic event, while others develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Both genetic and environmental factors affect people's risk of developing post-traumatic stress, the new study found.

A particular genetic variant makes people much more susceptible to PTSD after tragic experiences, but only if they have also had an abusive childhood, scientists in the United States have discovered

Despite major efforts to control the avian influenza in Indonesia, the country worst hit by the virus, the situation there remains "grave," the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned on Tuesday. The bird flu has become "deeply entrenched" in Indonesia, effecting 31 out of 33 provinces according to United Nations estimates.

The virus is endemic in Java, Sumatra, Bali and southern Sulawesi with sporadic outbreaks reported from other areas. In February, five people living in the west of Java, Indonesia's most populous island, died after contracting the H5N1 virus, responsible for outbreaks of bird flu around the world in recent years