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 health care system in California could save nearly $1.3 million a year with few adverse public health effects if it discontinued universal tuberculosis skin testing of children entering ...
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 ...
The San Francisco Department of Public Health said in a news release that among the 1,261 students and staff at the high ...
The risk to the general public appears low after an outbreak of tuberculosis at Archbishop Riordan High School, the San Francisco Department of Public Health says. Three active TB cases were confirmed ...
A nationwide shortage of the basic material needed for tuberculosis skin tests required by law for students entering both the Department of Education Schools and the University of Guam has left the ...
The risk to the general public appears low after an outbreak of tuberculosis at Archbishop Riordan High School, the San ...