As hospitals look to trim costs, experts say that blood testing for tuberculosis, as opposed to skin testing, can result in big savings despite the higher up-front costs associated with the practice.

OBJECTIVE: Approximately 6000 women deliver annually at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, where 2.4% of women has human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and 60% is foreign-born. We conducted a ...

A new screening process for tuberculosis (TB) infections in Canadian prisons could mean that more than 50 per cent of those screened won't undergo unnecessary treatment due to false positives.

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — Early March, about 230 faculty members and students at Discovery High School were tested for tuberculosis after it had been determined that one student at the facility had been ...