Leading UCSF physician-scientists are developing targeted treatments, earlier diagnostics, and helping to solve tuberculosis’ ...

A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...

An advanced type of MRI uncovers significant lung abnormalities in children and adolescents with long COVID, according to a study published in Radiology. Post-COVID-19 condition, commonly known as ...

TB is spread when a person with active TB of the lungs or throat coughs, speaks or sings. TB germs can stay in the air for several hours, depending on the environment. TB germs are more likely to ...

Free-breathing phase-resolved functional lung MRI-derived parameters can identify a distinct lung phenotype in children and adolescents with post-COVID-19 condition.

For the prospective study, conducted between April 2022 and 2023, the researchers enrolled 54 patients ranging in age from 11 to 17 years. Half of the patients were diagnosed with long COVID, and ...

Blood flow problems within the lungs could be driving long COVID in some children, according to scans using an advanced form of MRI. Children and teens with long COVID appear to have significantly ...

Worrying lung abnormalities have been detected in youngsters with long COVID. An advanced type of MRI scan uncovered "significant" problems - including reduced blood flow - in the lungs of ...

In addition to poor blood flow, a subgroup of long COVID patients with cardiopulmonary symptoms, such as shortness of breath, also showed a reduction of air movement and reach in the lungs. An ...

explains UCSF Center for TB’s Adithya Cattamanchi, MD. Cattamanchi is also UC Irvine’s division chief of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine. TB can be a debilitating illness: The longer it ...