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In this episode we are joined by Hema Kapoor, MD, SM, D(ABMM), Senior Medical Director of Infectious Diseases/Immunology and Global Diagnostics Network, Medical Affairs at Quest Diagnostics, to ...

Detecting tuberculosis early could play a significant role in eradicating the world's most deadly infectious disease. The World Health Organization says 1.5 million people die from this devastating ...

Hospitals across the country are running out of skin tests for latent tuberculosis, according to Spectrum News 1. The cause of the shortage is unclear and may last for months, Jonathan Grein, MD, ...

Sept. 30--A nationwide shortage of a tuberculosis skin test has health departments in the San Joaquin Valley giving the exam only to people at high risk for the lung disease and offering temporary ...

The Indiana State Department of Health says 85 skins tests for tuberculosis have come back positive, up from the 54 cases reported lasted week.The tests are part of an investigation into a Rock Creek ...

A private grade school in Moscow, Russia, is having trouble formulating a policy of TB screening with skin testing for students, as some have received bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine at birth, ...

A new blood test will allow doctors more accurately to pinpoint patients likely to develop the symptoms of tuberculosis, researchers said on Monday. Traditional testing for the disease involves ...

There is a shortage of tuberculin skin test antigens in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said April 12 in a Health Alert Network advisory. Tubersol (Sanofi ...

Therefore, in the setting of a previously described prospective longitudinal study of 4382 neonates in Southern India, 10 children referred to a TB case verification ward on suspicion of having TB ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A new blood test will allow doctors more accurately to pinpoint patients likely to develop the symptoms of tuberculosis, researchers said on Monday. Traditional testing for the ...