Former Wired executive editor Goetz (The Decision Tree) offers an intriguing medical and literary history based on “accidental partners in a profound social shift toward science and away from ...

Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it. Every fourth child is already sick and the parents ...

WATERLOO, Iowa (KCRG) - March 24 is World TB Day and is a day to educate the public about the impact of TB (tuberculosis) around the world. World TB Day commemorates the date in 1882 when Dr. Robert ...

It was March 24, 1882, and a little-known German physician named Robert Koch was about to make history. A group of scientists were gathered at a meeting of the Berlin Physiological Society, a body ...

Robert Koch (1843?1910), who isolated Mycobacterium tuberculosis in 1882 and proved that it caused tuberculosis, announced at a medical congress in Berlin eight years later that he had developed a ...