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...events in Dunster, Currier, Leverett, Eliot, Quincy, Adams, and Dudley Houses over the next week, according to Goswami. Drives at the other Houses and Annenberg are still being arranged, she added. Goswami said that the whole process—from the paperwork through the information packet to the cheek swab testing—would take potential donors 20 minutes. The initiative ran at four of Harvard’s graduate schools the week prior to Thanksgiving and recruited 180 donors, according to HBMI founder Sachin H. Jain ’02, who is now studying at Harvard?...
...Louisa May Alcott's era, a diagnosis of scarlet fever could only be made by clinical deduction; the distinctive rash accompanied by fever, nausea, vomiting and a sore throat. In my office practice, I swab throats daily looking for the dreaded strep bacteria and "rapid strep tests" allow concrete diagnoses to be made in a matter of minutes. Although the National Institute of Health estimates that more than 10 million mild infections caused by strep are diagnosed each year, the serious consequence of untreated strep infections are extremely rare in the U.S. Treatment for strep consists of oral antibiotics...
...agency reported to the Senate Special Committee on Aging the results of its probe of four Internet-based firms that - for prices ranging from $99 to more than $1,000 - promise personally tailored "nutrigenetic" advice. Customers provide the firms with a DNA sample in the form of a cheek swab and a detailed description of dietary and lifestyle habits. According to the agency, the reports peddled by these firms are in equal parts misleading, vague to the point of uselessness and based on scientifically dubious claims. The GAO sent in profiles for 14 mock customers - each with a unique lifestyle...
...test, which is sold online and at some drugstores, is simple. You use a special stick to swab the inside of your cheek, then send the sample off, along with a questionnaire about your diet and lifestyle, to Sciona's laboratories in New Haven, Conn. Within three weeks, Sciona sends back a standard computerized analysis of your survey answers, with a few highlights from or red flags about the genetic-test results. For example, Gill-Garrison says, the company estimates from the questionnaire the amount of folic acid in your system. Then it tells you what level you should...
...news--which could be a death sentence--by a doctor, a nurse or a trained counselor. Now AIDS can be effectively treated with antiretroviral drugs, and FDA approval seems imminent for the first over-the-counter HIV test for use in the home: the OraQuick Advance. With a swab of saliva taken from the gums, the kit (currently sold to doctors and clinics for about $15) delivers a result--positive or negative--in 20 minutes. The FDA approved an at-home HIV test in 1996, but users had to mail a blood sample to a lab, and although they could...