It’s either inaccurate — missing up to half of all cases — or requires expensive laboratories that are not widely available ...

TB tests use phlegm — not the easiest thing to get or work with. It takes time for results. And there can be false negatives ...

If you have experienced tuberculosis (TB) exposure or have symptoms, Medicare may cover a purified protein derivative (PPD) test. If you don’t have symptoms and haven’t experienced TB exposure, ...

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 ...

Drugs to treat tuberculosis have been around for more than 75 years, yet it remains the world's top infectious disease killer ...

The highly contagious disease can be deadly if left untreated.

Household contacts of people with tuberculosis (TB) have a high risk of getting TB themselves, at around 2 percent. It is ...

Household contacts of people with tuberculosis (TB) have a high risk of getting TB themselves, at around 2%. It is currently ...