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Blood Test for Tuberculosis Shows Strengths and Gaps in Chinese Children

A large Chinese study of 448 children and young adults finds the QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus blood test useful for diagnosing ...
BIOENGINEER

Blood Test Survey in Malawian Toddlers Reveals Hidden Tuberculosis Transmission Hotspots

A community survey of 1,545 young children in Blantyre, Malawi, found that blood-test evidence of tuberculosis infection clustered in the poorest households and did not match official case ...

Rapid low-cost diagnosis within reach for tuberculosis 'missed millions,' researchers find

These findings were generated by the largest-ever study of "pooled" tuberculosis (TB) testing, carried out by Start4All, a ...

The Mystery of Why Japan, with a 100% BCG Vaccination Rate, Has More Tuberculosis Than the US, with 0%

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

Blood test for multiple cancers clears crucial hurdle on track to FDA approval

A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted in favor of recommending that the agency approve a blood test for multiple cancers on Wednesday. The assay, called the Galleri test, is ...
Time

Who Should Get a Blood Test for Alzheimer's Disease?

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Philippine Daily Inquirer

4 Cebu provincial hospitals prepare to offer TB infection blood tests

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu — Four provincial hospitals in Cebu are preparing to offer blood tests for tuberculosis (TB) infection to help identify cases early and guide preventive treatment for eligible ...
health.nsw

Interferon Gamma Release Assay (IGRA)

Ang interferon gamma release assay (IGRA) ay isang pagsusuri ng dugo upang makita kung ang isang tao ay may impeksyon ng tuberkulosis (TB). Ang impeksyon ng TB ay nangyayari bago ang sakit na TB. Ang ...
Medscape

A Woman on Ruxolitinib Had TB That Mimicked Metastases

The patient with JAK2 V61F mutation-positive PV, diagnosed 9 years prior, presented to the municipal hospital in Uwajima, Japan, with bilateral edema of the lower extremities. She had been treated ...
The Hill

FDA approves new blood test for Alzheimer’s disease

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for a new test for Alzheimer’s disease, marking the fourth time such a blood test has been approved in less than two years. Roche announced ...
CNN

Another Alzheimer’s blood test gets OK from FDA

The US Food and Drug Administration has cleared Roche and partner Eli Lilly’s blood test to help identify signs of Alzheimer’s disease in people age ‌55 and older with cognitive decline. The test, ...
Forbes

FDA Clears Roche And Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s Blood Test

The FDA cleared the Elecsys Phospho-Tau (217P) Plasma blood test, which Roche and Lilly say is the single-biomarker blood test designed to test for the likelihood of amyloid pathology, a brain symptom ...