When profiling blood samples by RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq), RNA from haemoglobin (Hgb) can account for up to 70% of the transcriptome. Due to considerations of sequencing depth and power to detect ...

Investigators concluded that patients with prior pulmonary tuberculosis had an increased risk and high prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), regardless of smoking history. “Our ...

Our lungs are amazing, quietly doing their thing to keep us breathing and alive. But when they are compromised by disease, the effects can be devastating. Two of the diseases that can have a serious ...

Japan's BCG vaccination rate is nearly 100%. Every infant between 5 and 8 months of age receives the unique vaccination (the ...

In a recent study published in The Lancet Global Health journal, researchers evaluated the impact of nutritional support in Indian adults with microbiologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis. The ...

Rifapentine-based regimens have potent antimycobacterial activity that may allow for a shorter course in patients with drug-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis. In an open-label, phase 3, randomized, ...

Targeted nutrition, pulmonary rehabilitation, and environmental interventions reduce susceptibility to lung infections, reducing the need for antibiotics.

Ocular TB is a rare eye disease due to infection from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the same bacterium that causes tuberculosis, commonly known as TB. TB symptoms usually start in the lungs, but they ...