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From:Patient Care (Vol. 29, Issue 16) Peer-ReviewedDebate over the propriety of allowing medical home test kits for AIDS continues. The Food and Drug Administration rejected such kits in 1988, fearing that the counseling they feel for positive results would not be...
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From:American Journal of Law & Medicine (Vol. 21, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) appears likely to and should approve the home HIV test. The test has a few imperfections but could still save many lives. The Medical Device Amendments to the Food and Drug Act...
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From:Patient Care (Vol. 31, Issue 16) Peer-ReviewedA proliferating number of home test devices are available to diagnose and monitor medical conditions. The benefits and drawbacks of pregnancy tests, ovulation predictors, blood pressure monitors, blood glucose monitoring...
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From:MPR Obstetrician & Gynecologist Edition (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedChurch & Dwight has launched the at-home First Response Digital Ovulation Test, which detects a woman's personal LH surge based on her individual baseline hormone levels. The package contains 20 test sticks. For more...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 43, Issue 2)FROM MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT Women aged 30 years and younger in the United States are undergoing cervical cancer screening in line with recent national recommendations, findings from a report from the...
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From:Lung India (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Ramanathan. Ramanathan, Baskaran. Chandrasekaran Background: Six-min walk test (6MWT), a simple functional capacity evaluation tool used globally to determine the prognosis and effectiveness of any...
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From:Physical Therapy (Vol. 94, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedBackground. The KOOS-PS represents a shortened version of the Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) Function and Sport scales. Previous investigations have not evaluated the KOOS-PS against performance...
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From:Behavioral Healthcare (Vol. 32, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCould there be a way to diagnose depression from a simple blood test? Based on a new study conducted by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, the possibility may be closer to reality than you think....
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From:Indian Journal of Dermatology (Vol. 54, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Nilendu. Sarma The standard method of patch test reading is to read the test site for any positive allergy at 48hr and then again at 72/96 hr. A late reading on the seventh day is also advised to exclude the...
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From:Pharmacogenomics (Vol. 6, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThe US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared a new diagnostic test for marketing, developed by Third Wave Technologies Inc., which will aid the administration of personalized drug therapy. Third Wave...
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From:Practice Nurse (Vol. 22, Issue 9)Blood glucose levels can now be measured and results obtained at the touch of a button. The pocket-sized HemoCue Glucose 201 requires only a photometric analyser, a microcuvette and a drop of blood to provide results in...
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From:Sexually Transmitted Infections (Vol. 79, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedR. Campbell, N. Mills, G. Daker-White (for the Chlamydia Screening Studies (ClaSS) Study Group). Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, UK Background: The advent of home testing kits has raised the...
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From:Postgraduate Medical Journal (Vol. 79, Issue 935) Peer-ReviewedQ1: What is the diagnosis in this case? The diagnosis is Whipple's disease. This is a rare multisystem disorder characterised by weight loss, diarrhoea, abdominal pain, arthralgia and lymphadenopathy, though...
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From:Chest (Vol. 124, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedKey words: d-dimer; diagnostic testing; venous thromboembolism Abbreviations: d-d = d-dimer; DVT = deep vein thrombosis; ELISA = enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; PE = pulmonary embolism; PTP = pretest probability;...
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From:Reference & User Services Quarterly (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Yale University School of Medicine Patient's Guide to Medical Tests. Ed. Barry L. Zaret. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. 620p. $40 (ISBN 0-397-76536-6). Some of the most important conversations in our...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 306, Issue 6891) Peer-ReviewedUrinary tract infections are common in infancy and childhood and may indicate an underlying urological problem requiring treatment. The standard method for the diagnosis of urinary tract infection remains the...
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From:Journal of Global Infectious Diseases (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedByline: Lakshay. Chanana, Karishma. Atre, Sagar. Galwankar, Dhanashree. Kelkar The differential diagnosis of fever in the tropical world has to include Rickettsial diseases, apart from usual malaria, dengue, enteric...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Johan van Griensven 1,2,*, Vichet Phan 1, Sopheak Thai 1, Olivier Koole 2,3, Lutgarde Lynen 2 Introduction Scaling-up of antiretroviral treatment (ART) is currently ongoing in low and middle income...
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From:ALTEX: Alternatives to Animal Experimentation (Vol. 34, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe REACH Regulation requires information on acute oral toxicity for substances produced or imported in quantities greater than one ton per year. When registering, animal testing should be used as last resort. The...
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From:Ovidius University Annals, Series Physical Education and Sport/Science, Movement and Health (Vol. 16, Issue 2 SI) Peer-ReviewedAim of the study is that assesses sleep quality of a group of students. Hypothesis: the young people do not have a good score of sleep quality. The method Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) is a self-report...