When Nicklaus Chalk started law school at the University of California, Berkeley, last fall, one of his top priorities was to take care of his health. The 24-year-old student visited a doctor to get a ...
The test stick is swabbed along the upper and lower gum once and placed into the test tube for 20 minutes before reading the results. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the approval ...
More than 30 million people with HIV must take antiretroviral therapy (ART) medications daily to keep the virus under control ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Despite guidelines recommending periodic laboratory testing in patients with HIV on ART, it may be beneficial to ...
Next-day HIV viral load test results do not improve overall linkage to care when added to standard testing but are tied to ...
Patients with HIV who are not monitored with the expensive laboratory tests commonly used in rich countries may survive just as long as those who do get the tests, a new study says. In a paper ...
A smaller company, Alere Inc (NYSE:ALR), recently received FDA approval for its new HIV test, Determine HIV-1/2 Ag/Ab, which is the first approved test that can detect both the HIV-1 antigen and HIV-1 ...
Many countries in resource-limited settings have high HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, hepatitis, and/or sexually transmitted infection (STI) burdens. In 2010, WHO first recommended the use of the Xpert ...