The Patchogue-Medford School District said in a letter that the Suffolk County Department of Health alerted them about an ...
Medicare may cover the costs of a purified protein derivative (PPD) test if a person has symptoms or has been exposed to tuberculosis (TB). If not, Medicare will likely deny coverage as it would ...
A new study in "Nature Medicine" estimates 2 million people are incorrectly told they have TB each year — and clinicians miss ...
Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that infects nearly 11 million people worldwide, killing some 1.25 million of them every year, per data from the World Health Organization. A person infected with the ...
Health officials warned physicians to be aware of potential TB symptoms.