Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that infects nearly 11 million people worldwide, killing some 1.25 million of them every year, ...

The Elecsys IGRA TB test expands global access to tuberculosis infection testing, advancing progress toward the World Health ...

The test also showed high sensitivity in detecting TB in respiratory (93%), pediatric stool (83%) and adult spinal fluid samples (93%). With children, HIV patients and those with extrapulmonary TB ...

Improved diagnostic tools for tuberculosis that are suitable for use in peripheral health centers are essential for reducing the persistent gap between estimated and notified cases. The diagnostic ...

Inside a small laboratory at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, a technician splits a sputum sample in two. Half goes into a GeneXpert machine, the workhorse of ...

As a family practitioner in a solo practice, I am occasionally asked to do TB screening tests. The requests are so infrequent that it is difficult to rationalize intradermal purified protein ...

If you have experienced tuberculosis (TB) exposure or have symptoms, Medicare may cover a purified protein derivative (PPD) test. If you don't have symptoms and haven't experienced TB exposure, ...

Healthcare workers should be tested for tuberculosis (TB) when they are hired and should be retested only after an occupational exposure, according to new guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease ...

A case of tuberculosis has been reported at Lloyd High School in Northern Kentucky. Officials are testing several dozen who could've been exposed.

Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that infects nearly 11 million people worldwide, killing some 1.25 million of them every year, per data from the World Health Organization. A person infected with the ...