Discover the latest TB screening results from Bedok Central, with 85.1% testing negative for tuberculosis infection. Read ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the leading causes of mortality from a single infectious agent worldwide and continues to pose a major public health ...

TB tests use phlegm — not the easiest thing to get or work with. It takes time for results. And there can be false negatives and positives. A new test is more accurate and takes less than half an hour ...

It’s either inaccurate — missing up to half of all cases — or requires expensive laboratories that are not widely available ...

A total of 473 people screened for tuberculosis in Bedok have tested positive for the bacteria, the Communicable Diseases ...

Those flagged will be required to do a follow-up chest X-ray to determine if they have active TB or latent TB infection, the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging countries to move faster to detect and treat one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases: tuberculosis (TB). On March 24, a day widely recognized as ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is once again the infectious disease responsible for the most deaths worldwide, according to a Tuesday announcement from the World Health Organization (WHO). The contagious disease ...

Researchers have developed a fast, non-invasive tongue swab test for tuberculosis that could transform global TB diagnosis.