Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung condition that often hides in plain sight. You may think you're ...

Puducherry’s ten medical colleges are emerging as the driving force behind the Union Territory’s TB elimination fight, contributing to more than 50 per cent of TB notifications and participating in ...

Most tuberculosis-related deaths in people with HIV could be prevented with earlier diagnosis and treatment. The only commercially available tuberculosis point-of-care test (Alere Determine TB LAM Ag ...

Table 2 Risk of tuberculosis according to inhaler medication use Download figure Open in new tab Download powerpoint Figure 2 Dose-dependent relationship between cumulative doses of inhaled ...

The number of people wrongly diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis would be 40 with Xpert Ultra, and 14 with Xpert MTB/RIF. The results of these studies indicate that, in theory, for a population of ...

Lack of testing accounts for the highest number of patients lost in the TB care cascade, and stigma keeps many patients from ...

In a major positive step for global respiratory health, Member States at the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA), held May 19–27 ...