Yahoo

Even when you don't have TB symptoms, this century-old test can still detect the disease.

Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that infects nearly 11 million people worldwide, killing some 1.25 million of them every year, per data from the World Health Organization. A person infected with the ...
GEN

CRISPR Mouth-Swab Test Could Transform Tuberculosis Screening

More than 10 million people develop tuberculosis (TB) each year, yet about 40% go undiagnosed. The main culprit is reliance on sputum-based testing, which many patients—particularly those who are ...
Healio

Survey: Almost half of providers skip TB testing for high-risk patients

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Almost half of health care providers in the United States reported not routinely testing non-U.S.-born patients ...
Kaleido Scope

TB Screening

UAB requires initial TB screening, per CDC guidelines, while annual screening is not required. Routine TB testing may be needed based on examination of job risk. Employees who have been diagnosed with ...
kristv

Nueces County Health Department ends non-essential TB testing

is an experienced journalist with a diverse background in reporting, anchoring, and digital media. NUECES COUNTY, Texas — The Nueces County Health Department has made a significant change by halting ...
Business Wire

QIAGEN and DiaSorin widen access to latent TB testing in the U.S. with FDA approval of QuantiFERON ®-TB Gold Plus assay on LIAISON ® XS

HILDEN, Germany & SALUGGIA, Italy--(BUSINESS WIRE)--QIAGEN (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) and DiaSorin (FTSE MIB: DIA) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ...
News Medical

New strategy for TB screening aims to save lives

A new strategy for tuberculosis (TB) screening, proposed by a team of researchers led by Queen Mary University of London, provides a solution to problems with current TB screening, which does not ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal

TB testing for students at northwest school slated for late January

Amanda Bush got a call this month from the Southern Nevada Health District saying her 10-year-old son was exposed to tuberculosis at Deskin Elementary School. A representative told her that testing ...
Healio

Latent TB testing, positivity increased throughout 2021

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. WASHINGTON — Data collected between 2019 and 2021 ...
Medscape

Overseas TB Testing, Treatment of US Immigrants Reduces Spread

"In our study of US-bound immigrants in Vietnam during their required overseas medical examination prior to migration to the United States, we identified a high proportion of US-bound immigrants with ...
Becker's ASC

Does CMS Require Annual TB Tests for Surgery Center Staff Members?

Does CMS Require Annual TB Tests for Surgery Center Staff Members? Chris McMenemy, vice president for administration at Ortmann Healthcare Consultants in Columbia, S.C., addresses a question from a ...