AuthorsRichard H.Overholt, M.D., James A.Bougas, M.D., and Francis M.Woods, M.D. Author Info & Affiliations Published March 17, 1955 N Engl J Med 1955;252: 429 - 432 DOI: 10.1056 ...

Another 16,000 people with drug-resistant strains are failing to get treatment. London's 460,000-pound ($743,300) TB van has an X-ray machine whose scans can be instantly read by a radiographer.

In 17th and 18th century Europe it was known as “consumption,” and was commonly depicted in literature and opera. Marguerite, the heroine of the novel The Lady of the Camelias and the opera La ...

Testing for active tuberculosis is also a part of the immigration process. Visa applicants aged 11 years and over must have a chest X-ray for evidence of active tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis and COVID-19 lung lesions revealed by high-resolution three-dimensional imaging Date: November 29, 2022 Source: University of Alabama at Birmingham Summary: Researchers report that a ...

With an X-ray combination technique, scientists have traced nanocarriers for tuberculosis drugs within cells with very high precision. The method combines two scanning X-ray measurements and can ...

Incidence of Cancer of the Lung in Mass Chest X-ray Survey. The remaining 76 persons were reported to have cancer.† Of these, 43 were proved to have primary cancer of the lung (7.8 per 100,000).

Many lung cancers in nonsmokers have no known cause and are discovered only by chance.

In the study of more than 150,000 older Americans, those who had four annual chest X-ray screenings were just as likely to die of lung cancer as participants who didn't have those tests.

X-rays are a very weak technology,” he said. Chest X-ray screening for lung cancer was common decades ago, and some doctors continue to recommend it in smokers and former smokers.