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New HPV test for use in poor areas.(UPDATE)(human papillomavirus)(Author abstract)(Report)
A new rapid test developed for use in resource-poor settings to detect 14 cancer-causing types of human papillomavirus (HPV) has sensitivity and specificity at least comparable to those of other commonly used HPV testing methods, according to a study conducted between May 10 and June 15, 2007, in two hospitals in rural Shanxi, China. (1) Among 2,388 nonpregnant women aged 30-54 with no history of abnormal cervical cell growth who provided vaginal and cervical specimens for analysis by the new careHPV rapid DNA test, visual inspection with acetic acid and the standard HPV HC2 DNA test, 70 were found to have moderate or severe cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. The sensitivity and specificity of the careHPV test were greater than those of visual inspection with acetic acid and not significantly different from those of the HC2 test. Given ...
- FDA approved first DNA test for two types of human papillomavirus: Agency also...
- News wire article from: Chemical Business Newsbase March 13, 2009 700+ words
...Drug Administration approved the first DNA test that identifies the two types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that cause the majority of cervical...Cervista HPV HR test, which is the second DNA test that detects essentially all of the high...
- Get ready to take cervical cancer screening to the next level: Newly approved...
- Magazine article from: Contraceptive Technology Update June 1, 2003 700+ words
...Digene Corp. of Gaithersburg, MD, combines the company's existing Hybrid Capture 2 High-Risk HPV (human papillomavirus) DNA test with a Pap test. The FDA approved the new dual test as a primary screening option for women 30 years of...
- Data on human papillomavirus detailed by P. Soergel and co-authors.(Report)
- Magazine article from: Women's Health Weekly January 8, 2009 700+ words
...neoplasia (CIN) and human papillomavirus (HPV) infection...high-risk HPV-DNA test were included...colleagues (see also Human Papillomavirus). The researchers...Cytology, DNA, HPV, Human Papillomavirus, Photodynamics...
- Reports from H. Keegan and co-researchers add new data to research in human...
- Magazine article from: Women's Health Weekly March 26, 2009 700+ words
"Human papillomavirus (HPV) testing using...report (see also Human Papillomavirus). "LBC specimens...Proofer and the hc2 DNA test for the detection...Cytology, DNA, HPV, Human Papillomavirus, Viral, Viral Load...
- Screening guidelines support HPV testing.(human papillomavirus DNA testing)
- Magazine article from: Women's Health Weekly January 2, 2003 700+ words
...preliminary recommendation that human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing for high...Digene's Hybrid Capture 2 HPV DNA Test is the only FDA-approved...studies using Digene's HC2 HPV DNA Test. The new ACS guidelines were...company to market its HC2 HPV DNA Test in ...
- FDA approves expanded use of HPV test. (News).(human papillomavirus test)
- Magazine article from: Medical Laboratory Observer May 1, 2003 700+ words
...detect the presence in women of human papillomavirus (HPV), one of the most...the HC2 High-Risk HPV DNA Test, manufactured by Digene Corp...cervical cancer. The HPV DNA test does not test for cancer...initially approved the HPV DNA test in March 2000 for testing...
- Screening guidelines support HPV testing.(human papillomavirus)
- Newspaper article from: Cancer Weekly December 31, 2002 700+ words
...preliminary recommendation that human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing for high...Digene's Hybrid Capture 2 HPV DNA Test is the only FDA-approved...studies using Digene's HC2 HPV DNA Test. The new ACS guidelines were...company to market its HC2 HPV DNA Test in ...
- Landmark Study by National Cancer Institute Validates Use of Human...
- Press release article from: Business Wire February 20, 2001 700+ words
...Institute (NCI), found that High-Risk human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing for women with inconclusive...preparation, the reflex High-Risk HPV DNA test can be performed using the original...automatically receive the High-Risk HPV DNA Test. In August 2000, Aetna US Healthcare...
- Roche Diagnostics Acquires Broad Human Papillomavirus --HPV-- Patent Portfolio...
- Press release article from: Business Wire June 6, 2002 700+ words
...assigned a broad portfolio of patents pertaining to the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) to Roche for an undisclosed sum. As part of the...is to test borderline or equivocal Pap smears with an HPV DNA test (triage) to rule out approximately 50 percent of tests...
- Persistent cervical HPV test. (Clinical Capsules).(human papillomavirus)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Family Practice News December 1, 2002 700+ words
Persistent cervical human papillomavirus infections appear to be best identified by HPV DNA testing...1169-72, 2002). A negative result of a sensitive HPV DNA test indicates an extremely low risk of cervical intraepithelial...
Source: HighBeam Research, New HPV test for use in poor areas.(UPDATE)(human...