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 ...

Because it can be difficult to detect tuberculosis in young children, the disease may be dangerously advanced by the time it's diagnosed. A new blood test, however, is claimed to detect the presence ...

More than 10 million people develop tuberculosis (TB) each year, yet about 40% go undiagnosed. The main culprit is reliance on sputum-based testing, which many patients—particularly those who are ...

For those living in affluent countries, it’s easy to forget about tuberculosis, which seems like a disease of the Victorian era. In the U.S., thanks to investments in public health and TB surveillance ...

Researchers have developed a highly sensitive blood test that can find traces of the bacteria that causes tuberculosis (TB) in infants a year before they develop the deadly disease, according to a new ...

No known additional active tuberculosis cases have developed — so far — from a person with active TB who was at 26 Clark County School District campuses and a training center in recent weeks, ...

COBB COUNTY, Ga. - Hundreds of students and staff members at Cobb County's Walton High School have received their test results after they were possibly exposed to tuberculosis. Cobb and Douglas County ...

SIGNIFICANT progress has been made in TB diagnostics in the past decade as countries in the African region embrace new ...

Last week, activists and patients won a breakthrough in the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease: tuberculosis. Cepheid, a medical equipment manufacturer owned by the multinational ...

Thane district in Maharashtra has implemented AI-based handheld X-ray machines to screen over 14,000 individuals for ...

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 ...

This CDC illustration shows what the tuberculosis bacteria looks like. A Broward high school and Miami’s federal detention center have each confirmed an active case of tuberculosis, one of the ...