Your healthcare provider may also recommend a TB test — either a blood test or a skin test. For the skin test, you will need ...

TB can be cured, but ridding the body of the bug often takes many months and usually requires taking four or more medicines.

Delhi health department's ongoing community-based tuberculosis (TB) screening drive in urban slums has identified 37 cases ...

Quick screening helps identify undiagnosed TB cases within the patient’s family, enabling early treatment and preventing ...

Last month, mayors in 14 Nunavik communities alleged there were budget cuts to the health board and demanded for them to be ...

Panaji: The response to the tuberculosis prevention vaccine, Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), introduced in South Goa in 2024, ...

Current treatment for bedaquiline-resistant tuberculosis is linked with poor microbiological responses, unfavorable clinical ...

To further strengthen the fight against tuberculosis, the Union Health Ministry will soon procure 1,500 more handheld X-ray machines to facilitate large-scale screening and early detection of cases, ...

Puducherry’s ten medical colleges are emerging as the driving force behind the Union Territory’s TB elimination fight, contributing to more than 50 per cent of TB notifications and participating in ...

Puducherry has become the first in the country to screen tuberculosis (TB) patients under the Family Adoption Programme, or ...

The Tulane team has developed a handful of other assays for TB detection, including a mass spec test for paucibacillary TB that is being commercialized by NanoPin Tech and a non-sputum CRISPR-based ...