In part 2 of this interview, Michael A. Bernstein, MD, highlights the need for prolonged antibiotics and strong public health measures to combat tuberculosis (TB) at both the individual and population ...

Tuberculosis is on the rise in Mecklenburg County, but health officials say the overall risk to the public is still low.

This study presents TBorNotTB, a CDSS designed to improve TB evaluation and streamline isolation decisions, reducing labor while maintaining detection accuracy.

A NOVEL clinical decision support system (CDSS), TBorNotTB, has been developed to assist clinicians in diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis (TB ... factors such as epidemiologic risk, TB history, ...

The endTB trial is one of four recent randomized controlled trials testing new, shorter, and less toxic treatment regimens for drug-resistant TB. The trials are using two fairly new drugs— bedaquiline ...

updated recommendations are presented for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) in children and adults. Jussi J. Saukkonen, M.D., from the Boston Veterans Administration Health Care System, and ...

In rare cases, a granuloma doesn’t heal and the lung tissue around it can scar (pulmonary fibrosis ... but there are treatments that can ease your symptoms. Granulomas on your lungs usually ...

It pumps blood into your lungs through the pulmonary arteries. These blood vessels can have diseases, as well. The pleura is the thin lining that surrounds your lung and lines the inside of your ...

Sydney researchers have found that Levofloxacin substantially reduces risk of drug-resistant tuberculosis ... more than 400,000 people annually. A clinical trial published in the New England ...