Tests for a new drug to combat the highly infectious and deadly disease tuberculosis (TB) show it can be cured in much less time. A new study finds that adding the antibiotic moxifloxacin to standard TB medicines also made the drugs 17 percent more effective. Adding moxifloxacin also shortened the time it takes to cure TB to just four months.

Research done in Brazil by scientists from Johns Hopkins University presented the report at an American Society for Microbiology conference in Chicago

Oxford University researchers who have developed the first new tuberculosis (TB) vaccine in 80 years are now testing it in South Africa after successful trials in Gambia.

The new vaccine will be given, together with the BCG vaccine, to infected people in the Western Cape area, where the disease is prevalent. The test will determine if a combination of the new vaccine and BCG works better than BCG injection alone, the BBC reported on Saturday

Tuberculosis patient Andrew Speaker, who created international health scare when he flew to Europe for his wedding, was released from a hospital Thursday after successfully completing inpatient treatment.

Speaker, an Atlanta lawyer, got eight weeks of treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) at Denver's National Jewish Medical and Research Center. Speaker underwent surgery July 17 to remove a diseased portion of his right lung

A survey conducted by Nielsen Media Research in tandem with Reader's Digest show that high blood pressure is the top health concerns among Filipinos followed by high cholesterol and diabetes.

The study polled 24,000 respondents in seven Asian cities including Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and the Philippines. The researchers found that 79.5 percent of respondents consider high blood pressure as their top health concern followed by high cholesterol (70.8 percent) and diabetes (70 percent)

Andrew Speaker, the Atlanta lawyer who defied a government-issued no fly order to attend his wedding, potentially exposing hundreds of travelers to a virulent form of TB, is expected to undergo lung surgery today.

Speaker, 31, will undergo surgery to remove damaged and diseased lung tissue at the University of Colorado Hospital, according to a statement released National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver