A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...

It spreads through the air when infected individuals cough, sneeze, or spit ... up blood. Fatigue, fever, night sweats, loss of appetite, and weight loss are also typical signs. TB is the leading ...

It spreads through the air when people cough, sneeze, or spit. Ninety percent of people who get tuberculosis don’t have symptoms—they have what’s known as latent or inactive TB. Latent ...

UCSF researchers, including Cattamanchi, are also investigating how to improve existing experimental urine-based tests and, eventually, develop TB blood tests. TB can be a debilitating illness: The ...

While previous reports describing the outbreak as “the largest in U.S. history” were quickly debunked, it is one of the bigger TB outbreaks within a one-year period over the past several ...

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The World Health Organization warned last week that the sweeping funding cuts could endanger millions of lives, since many countries depend on foreign aid for TB prevention, testing and treatment.

Scientists have been tweaking the drug’s formulation and recently found in a 40-person test that one form led to higher levels of the drug in volunteers’ blood streams, lasting at least 56 weeks.

While everyone’s blood contains the same basic parts, there are eight different blood types. The type you have depends on genes you inherit from your biological parents. What makes your blood ...

Apple said it is working on repairing a glitch after some iPhone users noticed that speaking the word “racist” into the voice-to-text feature causes it to write “Trump” before quickly ...

The rarest blood type is Rhnull. Unlike other blood types, people with Rhnull blood have no Rh antigens on their red blood cells. Healthcare professionals classify blood type according to the ...