March 24, 2025, was set aside by the World Health Organisation as World Tuberculosis Day to commemorate the day in 1882 when one of the true giants of early medicine, Dr Robert Koch, announced his ...

The World Health Organization aims to reduce TB cases by 80% by 2030. The United Kingdom reported a 13% rise in TB cases in ...

After declining for many years, the number of cases of tuberculosis in the U.S. has been on the rise since 2021. In 2024, ...

For decades, diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) in Africa has been a slow, complex and resource-intensive process. Patients are often asked to produce sputum samples, which can be particularly difficult for ...

A point-of-care lung ultrasound system connected to a smartphone combined with a suite of deep learning models outperformed ...

Findings presented at ESCMID Global 2025 highlight the potential of AI-enhanced ultrasound as a frontline diagnostic tool for ...

A study has shown that an AI-powered lung ultrasound outperforms human experts by 9% in diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis ...

Most tuberculosis tests are conducted on sputum samples. The difficulty with this is that many people, particularly children ...

A pioneering study presented today at ESCMID Global 2025 has demonstrated that an AI-powered lung ultrasound outperforms human experts by 9% in diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis (TB).1 ...

After an adult was diagnosed with tuberculosis after visiting two locations in Manchester in January, officials are ...

In several communities, a lack of scientific awareness about the disease’s prognosis and transmission fuels misconceptions ...

This handheld device is the first that can detect tuberculosis in saliva, in addition to blood and sputum samples, an important breakthrough for testing children and HIV patients, who struggle to ...