News tagged with hiv test
Researchers combat global disease with a cell phone, Google Maps and a lot of ingenuity
(Phys.org) -- In the fight against emerging public health threats, early diagnosis of infectious diseases is crucial. And in poor and remote areas of the globe where conventional medical tools like microscopes and cytometers ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Apr 27, 2012 |
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AIDS tests come to South Africa's schools
A tiny prick made a drop of blood on Nkosi Minenhle's finger, as the 15-year-old underwent an HIV test in a mobile clinic set up on her high school grounds.
Mar 16, 2011 |
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New drug regimens cut HIV spread from mother to infant
Pregnant women who are unaware that they have HIV miss the chance for drug treatment that can benefit not only their own health, but could also prevent them from transmitting the virus to their infants. When HIV is not diagnosed ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Mar 02, 2011 |
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Hep C may benefit from genetic fingerprinting, research says
Genetic fingerprinting may predict who will benefit from early hepatitis C treatment and who will clear the virus spontaneously, new research shows.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 28, 2010 |
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HIV testing for children must be improved
National HIV programs should recognize that HIV testing and counseling systems designed for adults do not meet the needs of children. Therefore, according to Scott Kellerman from Management Sciences for Health, Virginia, ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 20, 2010 |
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In US cities, HIV linked more to poverty than race
(AP) -- Poverty is perhaps the most important factor in whether inner-city heterosexuals are infected with the AIDS virus, according to the first government study of its kind.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 19, 2010 |
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Routine emergency dept. HIV screenings find only small increase in newly diagnosed HIV patients
The use of routine HIV screening in a hospital emergency department, which patients had the option to decline, was associated with only a modest increase in the number of patients with newly diagnosed HIV infection, compared ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 18, 2010 |
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Study confirms benefit of routine, jail-based HIV testing for inmates
Routine, jail-based HIV testing of inmates can successfully identify a substantial proportion of people unknowingly infected with HIV and could play a critical role in preventing the spread of the disease, according to a ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jun 24, 2010 |
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Adding nucleic acid testing to HIV screening may help identify more people with HIV
Community-based HIV testing programs generally use only HIV antibody testing, but nucleic acid testing (NAT) can detect the presence of HIV earlier. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jun 14, 2010 |
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Dynamic HIV testing
A relatively simple electronic gadget could speed up HIV/AIDS diagnostics and improve accuracy particularly in parts of the world with very limited access to healthcare workers. The device is described in the International Jo ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 19, 2010 |
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Research calls for better assessment of tests for tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and malaria
A rapid and accurate diagnosis is the first step towards treatment in the fight against infectious disease. However, a team headed by Dr. Madhukar Pai at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 17, 2009 |
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FDA approves new HIV test from Abbott Laboratories
(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new test from Abbott Laboratories that detects both types of the virus that causes AIDS.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 18, 2009 |
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In vitro antibody production enables HIV infection detection in window period -- key to safer blood
Researchers in Israel and Kenya have shown that the contribution of variable degrees of immune suppression, either due to existing chronic infections such as parasitemias and/or nutrition, in different populations may influence ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 24, 2009 |
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New method for HIV testing holds promise for developing world
A new technique that detects the HIV virus early and monitors its development without requiring refrigeration may make AIDS testing more accessible in sub-Saharan Africa.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 21, 2009 |
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FDA ignores critical information on home HIV tests
Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC (May 29, 2009) The FDA is ignoring critical information in deciding whether to approve an over-the-counter, rapid HIV test for home use, according to a recent article ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
May 29, 2009 |
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