Word: tested
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...this work holds up to further scrutiny, it could be the basis of the first test for Alzheimer...
Finding such a test has been a top goal of government-sponsored research, Monjan said...
...known if the protein, called A-68, plays a role in causing the illness, but so far it is unique to Alzheimer's; that is, it has not been linked to other brain disorders. If further trials prove A-68 a reliable indicator, Davies says, a routine laboratory test for Alzheimer's could be available in a year...
French and Portuguese researchers disclosed the existence of LAV-II in March, after finding the new AIDS virus in the blood of two West Africans. At the time, Montagnier's colleague Dr. Francois Clavel warned that LAV-II could elude current blood-screening tests for AIDS. Since this virus appeared to be extremely rare, the risk to banked blood seemed small. Subsequent testing of West Africans, however, turned up 63 more victims infected with LAV-II; eleven of them have contracted AIDS, and ten have AIDS-related illnesses. Though no American has yet been found to harbor the new virus...
...Abner, the hero of Al Capp's comic strip, worked as a mattress tester, sleeping away his hours on the job. This soft life is not for Helen and Robert Yurs of Sycamore, Ill., who operate Rayco Engineering, probably the only consulting service that makes house calls to test bedding for structural defects...