The Lawrence County Health Department has announced an update to its tuberculosis (TB) skin test schedule for February. TB ...

Press release from Henderson Co. Dept. of Public Health: Effective Monday, August 5, the Department of Public Health will no longer offer routine tuberculosis (TB) skin test screenings due to a ...

OBJECTIVE: Approximately 6000 women deliver annually at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, where 2.4% of women has human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and 60% is foreign-born. We conducted a ...

SINCE the advent of the chemotherapy of tuberculosis primary cutaneous tuberculosis has become a rare clinical entity. With the reinstitution of mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration the physician has ...

Researcher found that exposed individuals with confirmed TB infection -- i.e. a positive skin or blood test -- should receive priority treatment in settings with a low prevalence of the disease, ...

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 ...

Detecting TB early goes a long way toward avoiding some of the disease's worst outcomes and preventing its spread to others.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), lower respiratory diseases rank as the fourth leading cause of death globally. With tuberculosis (TB) and pneumonia leading, these maladies, are the ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease that can be very serious if not treated. TB can stay dormant in your body for decades, but it’s contagious only when you have active symptoms. Tuberculosis ...