Our state continues to see new laws introduced each year that diminish funding and the authority of health departments — just ...

Slashing tuberculosis aid could endanger millions of lives abroad, health authorities say, with potential consequences for ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...

A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...

Public health is not optional — it is the foundation of a functioning, thriving society. Jack Gruber USA Today Network Kansas is facing the largest tuberculosis outbreak in the U.S. since the 1950s.

With increasing mass movement, including due to climate change and war, the maxim "TB anywhere is TB everywhere" is more ...

A similar resurgence is now being observed with tuberculosis in Kansas. It comes at a time when: Rural hospitals are closing, leaving entire regions without access to basic health care.