March 18 is World Tuberculosis Day. Let’s do a quick overview of TB, and discuss the different types of TB, risk factors, ...

Doctors and healthcare professionals can perform a PPD skin test to test for TB. Medicare Part B may cover eligible costs if your healthcare team decides to perform this test to help diagnose TB ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious bacterial infection that primarily affects the lungs but can spread to other organs. We got in ...

In a new book, author John Green writes about visiting a tuberculosis hospital in Sierra Leone, where he met a TB patient not ...

Laxmi Asrani, Entrepreneur and Director at Skinwood Clinic, shared her challenging journey battling Multidrug-Resistant ...

A phase-2 clinical trial for a next-generation inhaled COVID-19 vaccine has begun at McMaster University. With $8 million in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the ...

People with AIDS also have HIV, as HIV is the first stage of AIDS. Learn about the differences, how the conditions overlap, ...

Before you start Humira, your doctor will test you for TB. If you test positive for TB ... Humira may increase your risk for developing certain types of skin cancer, although this is rare.

Increase in tuberculin skin test (TST) response after an initially negative test when the test is repeated at any time from 1 week to 1 year later, in the absence of exposure or other evidence of new ...

Mar. 12, 2025 — Researchers helped conduct an important new global health study that found a vaccine that protects against five strains of meningitis prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa is safe and ...

If you’re looking for a cannabidiol (CBD) product to soothe your aches and pains, a topical CBD — such as a CBD cream — may be particularly useful. But how can you tell which CBD creams are ...