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 ...

While there is a vaccine for TB, it’s not generally recommended in the U.S. because of the low risk of severe disease in the ...

The latent TB testing market presents opportunities through government support, tech advances in multiplex and molecular diagnostics, POC testing, telemedicine, and personalized medicine. These ...

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 ...