People no longer need a TB test before starting risankizumab (Skyrizi®), unless their healthcare professional decides ...

A tuberculosis test that works with nothing more than a tongue swab could transform how the world’s deadliest infectious disease is detected, according to new research from Tulane University that ...

Researchers in the UC Davis Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine have created a new tuberculosis blood test that can detect the active, infectious form of the disease. The discovery enables ...

A retrospective study of 334 patients found that lymph nodes at least 1.5 centimeters wide and pus specimens were ...

Two new interferon-gamma blood test assays to detect latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) showed customers were exposed to a supermarket employee in Holland who had smear-positive tuberculosis, while ...

Drugs to treat tuberculosis have been around for more than 75 years, yet it remains the world’s top infectious disease killer. A big obstacle has been testing. It’s either inaccurate — missing up to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that infects nearly 11 million people worldwide, killing some 1.25 million of them every year, ...

A potential game-changer in the tuberculosis epidemic was how the tuberculosis community viewed rapid molecular tests for tuberculosis and tuberculosis drug resistance. This was 12 years ago, with the ...

A highly sensitive blood test can find traces of the bacteria that causes tuberculosis in infants a year before they develop the deadly disease, according to a new study. Using only a small blood ...