Your healthcare provider may also recommend a TB test — either a blood test or a skin test. For the skin test, you will need to return to your healthcare provider within 48 to 72 hours after the test ...

Some patients at KwaZulu-Natal hospitals are donating lung tissue for use in TB research. Spotlight tracks what happens to these tissue samples and explores why they are so important to unlocking ...

If you thought only smokers get lung cancer think again here’s what could be silently putting non-smokers at risk ...

Cancer therapies show promise in combating tuberculosis Date: March 25, 2024 Source: University of Notre Dame Summary: A study has identified a combination of medications that may improve blood ...

A $5.8 million grant led by the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban, South Africa, will provide user-requested infected human lung tissue ...

Tuberculosis, or TB, is a bacterial infection that causes 1.3 million deaths and 10.6 million new active cases each year, yet experimental animal models of TB do not reproduce the full spectrum of ...

A Calhoun woman contracted tuberculosis after contaminated human tissue was implanted in her spine during surgery, according to a lawsuit she and her husband have filed.

You can read the full paper ‘ "Human tissue-resident NK cells in the lung have a higher glycolytic capacity than non-tissue-resident NK cells in the lung and blood" at the following link: www ...

Post-COVID pulmonary fibrosis, which involves scarring of the lungs that can worsen over time and may require a lung transplant, affects some patients after infection, according to pulmonologists.