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Use of home health kits blossoming.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Being a possibly pregnant, over-30 smoker gave Cathy Calder the willies, but she didn't call her doctor for advice or a diagnosis.
"I was getting very, very nervous," the 39-year-old Dallas woman said. "So we went up to the Tom Thumb" supermarket.
Calder picked up a $14.99 pregnancy testing kit and headed home.
"I walked in the bathroom, and it had a little minus" sign, indicating she was not pregnant, Calder said. "In my case, it was `thank you!'''
Home tests now enable consumers to check for everything from prostate cancer to osteoporosis and Alzheimer's, and new products just keep coming.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved hundreds of tests, and domestic sales are expected to hit $2.82 billion by year's end, according to a recent Best's Review, a monthly trade magazine published by the ...
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