Given its growing public health impact, drug-resistant tuberculosis must be recognised as a global health security issue. Drug-resistant tuberculosis will be explicitly addressed later this year in ...

The X-ray machines are enabled by artificial intelligence algorithms (AI) that can detect TB in the lungs of infected persons and interpret the results in real time. This new system has made testing ...

"This toxin is completely different from the venom in both its composition and its function, and it's secreted from these wart-like nodules that span the animal skin," she said. Ms Lennox-Bulow ...

MatCH, which provides HIV and TB services in three provinces, told almost 900 employees it would not be able to pay their salaries after receiving a stop-work notice from USAID. The employees obtained ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new handheld device offers rapid, accurate tuberculosis diagnosis in under an hour, crucial for children in resource-limited areas. It detects Mycobacterium ...

This handheld device is the first that can detect tuberculosis in saliva, in addition to blood and sputum samples, an important breakthrough for testing children and HIV patients, who struggle to ...

Outbreaks in several states have contributed to recent TB trends, including a recent one in the Kansas City, Kansas area. The Kansas TB rate jumped 148% last year, according to the new CDC data.

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A second active tuberculosis case has been identified in the Chicago suburbs, this time at Joliet West High School. School officials sent out a general notice to parents Monday that a student had ...

JOLIET, Ill. (WLS) -- A south suburban student has been diagnosed with active tuberculosis, school officials said on Monday. Joliet West High School sent a letter to students and staff who may ...

Thyroid nodules are lumps (growths) made up of abnormal cell clusters that develop in the thyroid gland, located at the base of your neck. They can be solid, fluid-filled, or a mixture of both.