An automated nucleic acid amplification test widely used for early detection of tuberculosis in countries where the disease is more prevalent also worked well in the United States, suggesting the ...

Researchers have unveiled new AI tools, from smartphone cough analysis to child-friendly screening systems, which could ...

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 ...

A new test shows promising results for detecting latent tuberculosis infection in resource-limited settings. This is ...

It’s been discovered that a new tool using routine blood tests and a simple online app could help detect tuberculosis (TB) ...

A new tuberculosis test is faster and less expensive than conventional TB tests and lets doctors know much sooner if someone with the infectious disease is resistant to standard drugs, a study showed ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2014 over 9 million people contracted tuberculosis (TB), with 1.5 million dying from the disease. Over 95 percent of these deaths occur in ...

Hospitals and public health departments around the country are having a tough time coming up with a staple of preventive health care: the skin test for tuberculosis. The shortage, caused by problems ...

In this episode we are joined by Hema Kapoor, MD, SM, D(ABMM), Senior Medical Director of Infectious Diseases/Immunology and Global Diagnostics Network, Medical Affairs at Quest Diagnostics, to ...

A rapid tuberculosis (TB) test could significantly improve treatment and reduce the number of deaths in Southern Africa, according to a study published online November 20 in PLOS Medicine. Nicolas A.

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As much as one third of the global population is currently infected with the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), a disease typically concentrated in the lungs and characterized by weakness, fever ...