A century or so ago, tuberculosis was everywhere. It killed babies and brides, firemen and heads of state. The colloquial term of the era, “consumption,” littered the obituary pages and underscored ...

Many thousands of years ago, on a chilly African night, a group of people gather around a fire in a cave. Using the flames, they cook their food, fashion new weapons, and warm themselves. But where ...

With a forthcoming nonfiction book and an online army of Nerdfighters, the young-adult author aims to eliminate an entirely curable global scourge. By Maddie Bender You can roughly guess a person’s ...

Clifton Barry’s career as a tuberculosis researcher began in the 1990s, when the disease began to stage a quiet but dramatic resurgence. At the time, the overall death rate from TB was dropping, but ...