People looking to expand their horizons can now take part in summer adult career training at Jefferson County Joint Vocational School. Three certified adult education programs are available, including ...

THE IDEA THAT BLOCKING PUBLICATION of these studies is about upholding scientific standards is especially tough to believe ...

Compulsory interferon-gamma blood testing will be extended to more cattle herds in England from July, under changes by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (Apha). From 1 July 2026, all herds in the ...

Dear Doctors: I got a tuberculosis skin test for my health care job and tested positive. A follow-up blood test was also positive, and I was diagnosed with latent TB. However, I had no known exposure.

Drugs to treat tuberculosis have been around for more than 75 years, yet it remains the world's top infectious disease killer. A big obstacle has been testing. It's either inaccurate—missing up to ...

Household contacts of people with tuberculosis (TB) have a high risk of getting TB themselves, at around 2 percent. It is ...

The vision of a single blood test that could screen for dozens of different cancers has tantalized oncologists for more than a decade. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

Household contacts of people with tuberculosis (TB) have a high risk of getting TB themselves, at around 2%. It is currently ...

That has been the question for nearly 150 years, when Dr. Robert Koch first identified the rod-shaped bacterium that causes tuberculosis. This serious respiratory illness is currently the world's ...

Scientists at Mass General Brigham have created HPV-DeepSeek, a blood test that can detect HPV-linked head and neck cancers nearly a decade before diagnosis. By finding viral DNA in the bloodstream, ...

New CDC resource: The CDC's False-Positive Investigation Toolkit provides updated guidance for recognizing and investigating potential false-positive TB results. Why it matters: False-positive TB ...