This report has been produced by the Getting It Right First Time Projects Team at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH/GIRFT). It aims to reduce unwarranted variation to ensure best outcomes ...

Zara Darcy dropped out of her bioengineering PhD after two years due to a number of issues she had with the program, among them her desire for more control over her work and schedule. After ...

The World Health Organization warned last week that the sweeping funding cuts could endanger millions of lives, since many countries depend on foreign aid for TB prevention, testing and treatment.

Consumption, phthisis, the white plague – a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ice age. Today, the disease – passed from those who are actively sick to ...

Up to 166,000 people will die from malaria. New cases of tuberculosis will go up by 30%. Two hundred thousand more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade. Instead of acting on ...

Xin Wang et al, Engineered Mycobacterium tuberculosis triple-kill-switch strain provides controlled tuberculosis infection in animal models, Nature Microbiology (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41564-024-01913-5 ...

Editor's note: This story was updated on March 12, 2025, to note that the outbreak is not the largest on record in the United States. We apologize for the error ...

We're working with provinces, territories, Indigenous governments and other partners to end tuberculosis in Canada and around the world. Our joint efforts focus on 3 key areas: enhancing our efforts ...