A lab crucial to diagnosing cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reopened, according to the CDC. The Atlanta lab was closed several weeks ago ...

After an extensive review by the CDC’s internal Laboratory Safety Improvement Working Group, CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, has lifted the moratorium on a specific type of material transfer for ...

Plans are afoot to set up a sophisticated tuberculosis laboratory in the state on the lines of national reference labs. First there was multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB), followed by an ...

Cases of tuberculosis in the United States are still rare enough to make news. But there are 9 million cases of TB worldwide every year, and diagnosing the illness represents a large area of unmet ...

A tuberculosis (TB) laboratory which has the capacity to conduct complete testing for the disease has been commissioned at the Georgetown Public Hospital. The facility is equipped to conduct three ...

Patients huddle in dressing gowns outside the entrance to the King George V Hospital in Durban, South Africa. It is safer out here: fresh air limits the spread of disease. Inside, the sickest lie ...

Three workers in a downtown Seattle research laboratory were infected with tuberculosis while working on a vaccine for the deadly disease, state officials say. The accident at the Infectious Disease ...

According to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), the region has the second most congested jails in the Philippines, making detainees highly vulnerable to contracting the disease.

A lab crucial to diagnosing cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reopened, according to the CDC. The Atlanta lab was closed several weeks ago ...