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FDA Approves First-of-Its-Kind HIV Test Which Can Detect HIV Days Earlier Than Current U.S. Tests

Every nine and a half minutes, someone in the United States is infected with HIV, and one out of every five of these individuals doesn’t know it. To help stem the spread of this disease, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved an innovative new diagnostic tool, which will allow patients to be [...]



Siemens Introduces New Molecular Assay to Diagnose Sexually Transmitted Infections

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics has received CE-marking for the VERSANT® CT/GC DNA 1.0 Assay (kPCR). A nucleic acid amplification test, the VERSANT CT/GC assay provides a sensitive, noninvasive means to detect Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae using easy-to-obtain specimens. Sexually transmitted infections (STI) are a major global cause of acute urogenital infection. Left untreated these infections [...]



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