Re: HIV e AIDS
Inviato da Paxtibi il 10/12/2005 12:12:17
Ecco un altro piatto fresco di giornata:
False Positives From H.I.V. Test
Health officials in New York and San Francisco said yesterday that a widely used rapid test for the virus that causes AIDS had been producing too many false-positive results, frightening healthy people into thinking they might be infected.
The test, called the OraQuick Advance H.I.V. test, is the same one the Food and Drug Administration has said it will consider approving for sale to the public for home use without a prescription.
But officials in the two cities and at the drug agency also emphasized that the test, which requires a mouth swab instead of a blood sample, should not be abandoned, because its convenience made it a valuable tool in fighting AIDS.
Rather, they said, the problem needs to be investigated, and clinics and patients need to be aware that a positive result must be confirmed by another type of test.
False Positives From H.I.V. Test
Health officials in New York and San Francisco said yesterday that a widely used rapid test for the virus that causes AIDS had been producing too many false-positive results, frightening healthy people into thinking they might be infected.
The test, called the OraQuick Advance H.I.V. test, is the same one the Food and Drug Administration has said it will consider approving for sale to the public for home use without a prescription.
But officials in the two cities and at the drug agency also emphasized that the test, which requires a mouth swab instead of a blood sample, should not be abandoned, because its convenience made it a valuable tool in fighting AIDS.
Rather, they said, the problem needs to be investigated, and clinics and patients need to be aware that a positive result must be confirmed by another type of test.
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