Kilmer McCully, Pathologist Scorned for Heart Disease Theory, Dies at 91
His studies showed that a B vitamin deficiency could cause hardened arteries. It took the medical profession more than a ...
Pacific Daily News2m
With average 70 confirmed tuberculosis cases a year, Guam to join March 24 observance of World TB Day
With an average of 70 confirmed cases of the highly contagious tuberculosis a year, Guam will join the observance of World TB ...
‘Air-Borne’ Review: The Microbes in the Mist
For years, public-health authorities downplayed the risk that pathogens could spread via droplets light enough to circulate ...
An Ancient Disease Has Reappeared in The US. This Could Be Why.
An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...
Wall Street Journal7d
‘Air-Borne’ Review: The Microbes in the Mist
By the late 19th century, studies by Louis Pasteur in France and Robert Koch in Germany established that disease was spread by germs, consigning miasmas to the dustbin of medical history.
The Conversation15d
As tuberculosis cases rise in the US and worldwide, health officials puzzle over the resurgence of a disease once in decline
Reports of TB date back to around 410-400 B.C.E., when the physician Hippocrates ... discovered in 1882 by the German physician Robert Koch. Koch announced his findings on March 24, 1882, a ...