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

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

Hospitals across the country are running out of skin tests for latent tuberculosis, according to Spectrum News 1. The cause of the shortage is unclear and may last for months, Jonathan Grein, MD, ...

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, ...

The following scenario emphasizes the necessity of creating a wheal while administering the Mantoux test. A 46-year-old Asian man who recently immigrated to the United States was seen for routine ...

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 ...