Blog - While likely years away from widespread use, a test for TB that relies on a simple tongue swab instead of a person having to cough up sputum is showing promise. Spotlight takes stock of how the ...

The test enables doctors reliably to identify people who are infected long before they develop symptoms ... gives a false positive result if someone has been vaccinated against TB.

A point-of-care lung ultrasound system connected to a smartphone combined with a suite of deep learning models outperformed ...

For decades, diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) in Africa has been a slow, complex and resource-intensive process. Patients are often asked to produce sputum samples, which can be particularly difficult for ...

More than 40 years ago, when people were diagnosed with HIV/Aids, they were often given only one to two years to live ...

In other H5N1 developments, the WHO releases surveillance guidance for human cases, and the USDA announces new funding to ...

An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) ...

Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

In a Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study, the addition of navitoclax to the standard TB treatment significantly increased ...

Much like GeneXpert and Truenat, the rt-LAMP assay too is a molecular test with high sensitivity and specificity. The rt-LAMP assay was able to detect TB DNA even when only 10 copy numbers were ...