Hospitals and public health departments around the country are having a tough time coming up with a staple of preventive health care: the skin test for tuberculosis. The shortage, caused by problems ...
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 ...
Medicare may cover the costs of a purified protein derivative (PPD) test if a person has symptoms or has been exposed to tuberculosis (TB). If not, Medicare will likely deny coverage as it would ...
Electrical & Biomedical Engineering (EBME) Professor Xiaoshan Zhu and his colleagues have won a U.S. National Science ...
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, in collaboration with colleagues in South Africa, have investigated whether ...
Health leaders are working closely with school administrators, healthcare providers, and community partners to ensure the ...
Using QuantiFERON-TB Gold as the sole screening test before starting biologic therapy reduces TB diagnoses compared with using dual testing and does not raise the risk for subsequent active TB.
Hospitals and public health departments around the country are having a tough time coming up with a staple of preventive health care: the skin test for tuberculosis. The shortage, caused by problems ...