A few coughs, an app and 30 seconds could soon be all that healthcare workers need to determine whether someone needs further, expensive yet critical tuberculosis (TB) testing. Work on Cough Audio ...

University of Washington Medicine doctors along with researchers across the globe have created technology that screens respiratory illness like tuberculosis through an app on a smartphone. If study ...

SEATTLE — It sounds like something from science fiction: a mobile app that can tell what respiratory illness you have based on the sound of your cough. A group of scientists and physicians at the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of different subclinical TB definitions revealed no persistent cough in 82.8% of patients, no cough in 62.5% ...

Michael Shiloh had been studying tuberculosis for about two decades when he started wondering about a seemingly basic question: What makes people with TB cough? This is the disease’s hallmark symptom ...

We all get coughs from time to time, and most of us don’t think twice about them. But what if that nagging cough just won’t go away? Could it be a simple allergy, or is it something more serious like ...

A significant proportion of people in the community with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) have subclinical disease, according to a meta-analysis involving survey studies across Africa and Asia. In adjusted ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious but preventable disease caused by bacteria that mainly affects the lungs. It spreads through the air when infected people cough or sneeze as per the World Health ...