Early detection and prompt treatment of tuberculosis (TB) are the main pillars on the way to ending TB as they help prevent further transmission. Finding those at risk of developing infection, however ...

More than 10 million people develop tuberculosis (TB) each year, yet about 40% go undiagnosed. The main culprit is reliance on sputum-based testing, which many patients—particularly those who are ...

Prescribing information and clinical guidelines showed gaps in TB screening protocols for many recently approved targeted immunotherapies.

San Francisco public health officials issued a health advisory after identifying a tuberculosis outbreak in a private ...

Probius to develop AI-powered point-of-care screening technology, eliminating sample preparation requirements and ...

A study led by researchers from Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), in collaboration with health economics experts from Can Ruti, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Agència de Salut Pública de ...

The rates of screening for latent tuberculosis remain suboptimal among new users of biologic and targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (b/tsDMARDs), with notable variations by ...

Objectives The objective of this study was to test whether an airtime reward increased tuberculosis (TB) Check screening uptake. This served as a feasibility study for the planned Phase 2, which aimed ...

In their systematic review published in Eurosurveillance prior to World TB Day, Gogichadze et al. explore this question particularly for settings with a low incidence of TB cases. European Centre for ...