In a major positive step for global respiratory health, Member States at the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA), held May 19–27 ...

Research from the NIH’s National Cancer Institute, an agency beleaguered by funding cuts and censorship, finds that ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major health threat in many regions of the world, while diagnosing tuberculosis still remains a challenge. Mortality rates of patients with undiagnosed TB are high. Modern ...

In mouse studies, the minimal effective dose needed to prevent gross lesions (6.25 mg/kg) was similar to the bactericidal dose (dose needed to reduce lung and spleen colony counts by 3 log; 12.5 ...

Care options for bedaquiline-resistant tuberculosis are scarce, 5 and there is a pressing need to optimise therapeutic strategies for the growing number of people with these forms of tuberculosis. The ...

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a severe, long-term, life-threatening respiratory illness. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of COPD and the ...

However, it will also result in 16 more children without tuberculosis being misdiagnosed as having tuberculosis. Compared to using only LC-aNAAT on stool alone, parallel testing of LC-aNAAT on ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is uniquely characterized by obligate airborne transmission (1) with each new infection initiated following deposition of small diameter (<5 μm) Mycobacterium tuberculosis ...

Pulmonary actinomycosis is difficult to diagnose. Clinically and radiologically, pulmonary actinomycosis can often mimic tuberculosis, lung abscess, or lung cancer 1, 2, and can sometimes cause ...

In the early 1800s, the doctor René Laënnec invented the stethoscope and used it to listen in on the rattling lungs of people with tuberculosis, creating the first modern diagnosis of the disease.