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 ...

Usually, when someone presents with suspected pneumonia the hospital will sample their lungs with a sputum test or swab.They will often also undergo an X-ray, usually to confirm which parts of the ...

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 ...

An awareness program was conducted on February 27 at the Directorate of Information and Public Relations, Kohima, as part of ...

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.

It's vital to know what's causing the infection to effectively treat it. Usually, when someone presents with suspected pneumonia, the hospital will sample their lungs with a sputum test or swab. They ...