What is your feeling about incidental endometrial polyps noted sonographically in a postmenopausal woman? I read last month's green journal's lead article, which suggested that a certain percentage of ...

This week, the matter of asymptomatic transmission of the novel coronavirus has caused much confusion — and sparked a lively debate on Twitter. It started Monday when the World Health Organization ...

Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) is defined as the presence of ≥100,000 colony-forming units (CFU)/mL of bacteria in a ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a tenacious bug. The disease, caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has survived and thrived among humans for millennia, even though it can be cured by antibiotics.

Yesterday, a World Health Organization official said that it is, quote, "very rare" for the coronavirus to be transmitted from asymptomatic carriers. Today she walked that statement back. Maria Van ...

June 9, 2020 // Editor’s note: Since the publication of this story, the WHO has clarified its statement about asymptomatic spread of SARS-CoV-2, calling it a "misunderstanding." Medscape will publish ...

Although TB can be cured, it is still spreading in South Africa at alarming rates. One reason could be that some people with TB disease but without symptoms may unknowingly be passing on the bug. In ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China said 300 symptomless carriers of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, the epicentre of the pandemic, had not been found to be infectious, in a bid to reassure people as countries ...

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