Prior to being diagnosed with bronchiectasis, many patients reported living with symptoms for multiple years, according to ...

Phlegm might seem like an everyday nuisance, but it can serve as a critical indicator of your body’s respiratory and systemic ...

World TB Day I spent a day accompanying TB affected street activists (TASA) - women who help homeless women and female ...

According to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Rajat Kumar Chaurasia, "With the help of these portable X-ray machines we do ...

Professor David Denning evaluates timely and accurate diagnosis of Aspergillus infection and the clinical spectrum of ...

Some English words are more euphonious than others, and some are more cacophonic. Here I discuss the latter, the ugliest English words, of which I have analysed 415 from a large number of published ...

APOPO's HeroRATS program uses trained rats to detect TB, offering a cost-effective and accurate solution for early diagnosis.

When a person has black or dark-colored mucus, they may have inhaled potentially harmful pollutants. Coughing up black mucus may also be due to an underlying infection or condition. Mucus serves ...

Mumbai: Close to a crore people were screened for tuberculosis (TB) in the last 80 days across Maharashtra, and around 30,000 of them were diagnosed w.

Sputum is an easily obtainable sample and has provided a wealth of information on COPD pathobiology, and thus has been a preferred sample type for microbiome studies. Although the sputum microbiome ...