A mother who spent a year being treated for tuberculosis (TB) is calling on people to get tested following a rise in cases ...

Testing for HIV and tuberculosis has fallen in Eastern Europe and Central Asia during the coronavirus pandemic and could lead to higher mortality rates, a U.N. special envoy for AIDS said on Wednesday ...

Despite recent advances in screening and diagnosis, tuberculosis remains the deadliest infectious disease. An estimated 10·8 million people developed tuberculosis and 1·25 million died from it in 2023 ...

Electrical & Biomedical Engineering (EBME) Professor Xiaoshan Zhu and his colleagues have won a U.S. National Science ...

Using QuantiFERON-TB Gold as the sole screening test before starting biologic therapy reduces TB diagnoses compared with ...

A CRISPR mouth-swab test could transform TB screening with rapid, low-cost detection in low-resource and asymptomatic cases.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, in collaboration with colleagues in South Africa, have investigated whether ...

SAN ANTONIO – Letters to parents at several Northside ISD schools last week warned that one student tested positive for tuberculosis and that other students will need to be tested for the infectious ...

A nationwide shortage of the basic material needed for tuberculosis skin tests required by law for students entering both the Department of Education Schools and the University of Guam has left the ...

TB is an infectious disease that primarily affects the lungs. Early and accurate diagnosis is crucial so that patient treatment can begin in a timely manner. An important step has been taken to make ...

PACHECO, Calif. -- Public health officials in the Northern California's Contra Costa County are advising anyone who has spent time inside California Grand Casino in Pacheco since 2018 to consider ...