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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An old tuberculosis hospital that hosts one of Louisville's spookiest Halloween traditions will be nixed as COVID-19 spreads in the community.There won't be a haunted house this year at Waverly Hills ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Closing the state’s only tuberculosis sanitarium will improve treatment of the disease by shifting the focus to community-based care under a new plan aimed at cutting the ...

WALD/DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) -Swiss mountain sanatoriums whose fresh-air and sunlight cures once drew tuberculosis patients from across Europe are reinventing themselves for a new generation: ...