In the 99 Percent Invisible podcast interview, Green laments the destruction of USAID and what this may mean for TB programs, ...

In an effort to conserve supplies of products needed to perform tuberculosis skin tests, the Department of Public Health and Social Services has made a temporary change in the process for the ...

Coughing, with blood-tinged sputum (phlegm that comes from deep inside the lungs); fever, weight loss and night sweats are ...

A machine learning model outperformed biological tests for latent TB in identifying HIV-positive people at high risk of ...

meaning patients had come in for non-TB-related symptoms. “By expanding the funnel of testing, we could detect about 3 million probable TB cases each year at an early stage, preventing further ...

The test showed a sensitivity of 90% and a specificity of 63% in detecting TB, meaning it can accurately identify cases while providing a good screening test for remote locations. A smartphone ...

Purdue will only accept a TB blood test meaning that your blood must be drawn by a lab. The TB skin tests (PPD/Mantoux) are not acceptable. Graduate students do not have access to the Patient Portal ...

A Broward high school and Miami’s federal detention center have each confirmed an active case of tuberculosis, one of the deadliest, but treatable, infectious diseases in the world. The ...

That doesn't mean that latent TB isn't a big deal ... There are two main tests for TB: a skin test and a blood test. Other tests can also be used, like chest x-rays or testing a sample of mucus ...

Testing for TB can take a range of forms, including chest x-rays, sputum cultures, molecular testing, screening for symptoms, and skin or blood tests to measure dormant TB infection (TBI).

Researchers at NYU Langone Health and its Perlmutter Cancer Center have revealed that blood tests could predict the return of skin cancer. Melanoma is a less common form of skin cancer that is ...