Cutting funding to American cancer researchers, American universities, and American students harms us, Americans, more than ...

There were nine active cases in Vanderburgh County as of Thursday, fewer than five of which involve children, according to ...

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed Senate Bill 29, but the veto was overridden by the Republican-dominated House and Senate.

Under a new law, local health officials will have to prove “probable cause” to make someone quarantine. Orders about public ...

The Kansas Legislature overturned the governor’s veto of a bill that opens state and county health officials to civil action ...

In the wake of dramatic cuts to US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) staff, cutbacks for state public health ...

Now for a global snapshot. According to estimates provided by the United Nations-affiliated STOP TB Partnership (STP), over ...

Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed six bills Friday afternoon, drawing the ire of Republican leadership who promised veto overrides when ...

Tuberculosis is a "near-perfect predator," John Green said in his book "Everything is Tuberculosis." The bacterial infection, ...

A new study found that reported diagnoses for tuberculosis were consistently lower than expected throughout the pandemic, even though incarceration rates remained largely consistent and TB detection ...

But the development of antibiotics and public health efforts succeeded ... including a recent one in the Kansas City, Kansas area. The Kansas TB rate jumped 148% last year, according to the ...

There are a record-breaking 68 active cases of tuberculosis, according to a March 28 update from the Kansas Division of Public Health. Most of the cases (61) are in Wyandotte County, with the rest ...