James Monroe, Nelson Mandela, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Chopin, Doc Holiday and Eleanor Roosevelt; what does this diverse group of famous people have in common? They all died from tuberculosis.

LIMA — The former Lima Tuberculosis Hospital, shuttered in 1973 and sitting vacant since that time at the eastern end of Garden Boulevard/Western Ohio Street in the Shawnee area, is believed by some ...

I knew of John Green from his excellent teen novels "The Fault in Our Stars," "Looking for Alaska" and "Turtles All the Way Down." When I heard he had written "Everything is Tuberculosis: The History ...

The site of a former tuberculosis sanatorium on the border between Wayne and Haledon may become Passaic County's newest park. County officials this week confirmed they are in the preliminary stages of ...

Wards and hospital beds at the Mountain View TB Sanatorium, which opened in 1952 in Tacoma. It had single-bed rooms for the seriously ill and four-bed wards. The daily hospital expense was ...

No special plans have yet been made for use of nearly a quarter of a million dollars left to the Northwoods Tuberculosis Sanatorium of Saranac Lake in the will of the late Mrs. Minnie Hayman of New ...

BOONEVILLE – The enormous Nyborg Building, completed in 1938 with Art Deco touches, once contained more than 500 hospital beds. Before closing in 1973, it housed many of the 70,000 tuberculosis ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – A Kentucky hospital that was once the last stop for thousands of people sickened by tuberculosis is now a popular haunt among ghost hunters and paranormal enthusiasts who say ...