By Gift BritonEvery year on March 24, the world commemorates Tuberculosis (TB) Day to raise awareness about this infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. TB is one of the oldest ...

A new machine learning model predicts active tuberculosis in people with HIV more accurately than current tests, offering a ...

Ogun State Government has called on residents to actively participate in the fight against tuberculosis, TB by promoting ...

Subclinical TB or tuberculosis ... confirmatory molecular test (NAAT), before beginning any treatment,” officials said. The department only intends to do the X-ray screening once annually.

If you don’t have symptoms and haven’t experienced TB exposure, Medicare may class this as a screening ... professionals can perform a PPD skin test to test for TB. Medicare Part B may ...

The other form of the disease is active TB, where someone is experiencing symptoms of the infection and could spread it to other people. TB can be fatal if not treated properly. The skin test ...

Deputy chief public health officer Dr. Ekua Agyemang said the Department of Health is taking this opportunity to screen the whole community for tuberculosis (TB) with a ‘stepwise’ (one step at ...

Now a new study could pave the way for precision-medicine based diagnostic testing and targeted ... to identify a novel form of a severe and potentially life-threatening skin disease." ...