Medicare Part B may cover the costs of a purified protein derivative (PPD) test if your healthcare professional deems it necessary to diagnose tuberculosis (TB) due to existing symptoms. A PPD test ...

The MHRA has approved Siiltibcy, a new skin test that uses recombinant proteins to more accurately detect tuberculosis in ...

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 ...

I am seeing an increasing number of patients who relate a past positive tuberculin skin test (TST) but were never treated with isoniazid (INH) prophylaxis. Before initiating INH treatment in an older ...

If you have experienced tuberculosis (TB) exposure or have symptoms, Medicare may cover a purified protein derivative (PPD) test. If you don’t have symptoms and haven’t experienced TB exposure, ...