Electrical & Biomedical Engineering (EBME) Professor Xiaoshan Zhu and his colleagues have won a U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Phase 2 award to develop this test after proving their concept ...

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 ...

Tuberculosis (TB) takes more than 1 million lives annually, with 95 percent of fatalities coming in developing nations. Eradicating TB in these countries is especially difficult because of the lack of ...

New Hampshire health officials are warning the public after they identified two people with tuberculosis who were in ...

Using QuantiFERON-TB Gold as the sole screening test before starting biologic therapy reduces TB diagnoses compared with ...

The test can be administered on a mouth swab instead of sputum and doesn’t require lab facilities ...

The Virginia Department of Health is working with Rockingham County schools after a case of tuberculosis was discovered.

According to the university, the traditional method of testing for TB involves the collection of sputum, or mucus from the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A team of researchers at Central Michigan University is working to diagnose tuberculosis infections faster with a new test. Ben Swarts, a professor of chemistry and ...

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 ...

Anyone identified as being potentially exposed to TB will receive a notification with recommendations for testing and a ...

New Hampshire health officials are warning the public after they identified two people with tuberculosis who were in ...