Nursing students and professionals entering the health care field are often tested for tuberculosis exposure upon matriculation or hiring, and one of the most common tests uses a blood sample.

In a memo posted to X on Monday morning, the secretary of state said 5,200 contracts had been canceled following a six-week ...

Reports of TB date back to around 410-400 B.C.E., when the physician Hippocrates termed the disease phthisis, an archaic word that means a progressive “wasting away,” due to the way people with the ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a formidable health challenge, claiming over a million lives annually despite advancements in ...

Tuberculosis cases are on the rise in Mecklenburg ... symptoms of TB in other parts of the body depend on the area affected. For example, TB disease of the lymph nodes may cause a firm red or ...

It turns out 98.6 degrees is a dated figure, and the real number today is likely lower. So what does that mean for fevers?

Illness and death from tuberculosis, pneumonia ... Zapata added. For example, older people often don't mount high temperatures even when they're ill. But having a fever is usually a telltale ...

One of the many projects that received termination letters is the Smart4TB programme. The project, coordinated by Johns ...

The firings come even as the Trump administration is said to be readying plans to turn back migrants on the grounds that they might bring diseases like tuberculosis and measles into the country.