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A low-cost microsope that can be carried in a backpack could be effective in detecting tuberculosis in rural areas, a study has found.

A web-based system could enable the diagnosis of drug-resistant tuberculosis in seconds, using the Internet and mobile phones.

Twelve Caribbean countries will receive US$ 125 million from the U.S. to fight AIDS and improve their research infrastructure.

Indian scientists say that new anti-TB drugs can be based on the fact that the TB bacterium depends on crucial human proteins for its survival.

The pioneering Open Source Drug Discovery project has mapped the TB genome and found a potential drug for the disease.

Drug therapies for tuberculosis could emerge four times faster than normal, thanks to a new approach that pools research.

Suspending live virus vaccines in layers of sugar could prove an effective way of storing them without refrigeration.

The health financing giant the Global Fund may have to carry out some unprecedented belt-tightening as demand outstrips its budget.

Technology that diagnoses TB in the same way that airport scanners find explosives could take the delay and labour out of testing.

A study conducted in Iquitos, a Peruvian city in the Amazon, points out the need to redesign tuberculosis campaigns to avoid social stigma.

A TB medication that harnesses nanotechnology to cut treatment time and eliminate side effects has won a prestigious award.

A new tuberculosis drug found using an old method of drug discovery is the first in 40 years to have proved successful in trials.

Mobile phones that enable remote disease diagnosis have been awarded funds for research and developing world field trials.

China is stepping up its fight against TB using the latest technological innovations in diagnostics and drug delivery.

South Africa's University of KwaZulu-Natal will be home to a new HIV/TB research hub focused on combatting the dual infection.

Hanging UV lights in hospital wards could reduce the spread of TB by killing even drug-resistant strains, researchers have found.

A quarter of TB deaths occur in HIV patients, says the WHO — double the previous estimate.

A mixture of two drugs has wiped out extensively drug-resistant TB in the laboratory and clinical trials are planned.

A comparison of different strains of tuberculosis has revealed that they are prone to acquiring drug resistance.

A new survey reveals that China has one of the highest levels of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in the world.