Last month, a number of clinics and healthcare centers in the New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco regions reported a higher-than-expected incidence of false positives on the saliva-based OraQuick ...
Since the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was identified in 1983, roughly 91.4 million people around the world have contracted the virus and an additional 44.1 million have died from related causes ...
NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Orasure Technologies said its OraQuick rapid HIV-1 antibody test produced "substantially fewer false-positive results" than traditional lab-based HIV tests or other FDA-approved ...
Sample blood collection tube with HIV test label on HIV infection screening test form. (Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / Room's Studio) A non-reactive HIV test result generally means good news – you ...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Orasure Technologies rose 9.2% to $8.64 on Tuesday after the company said it's taken a number of actions in response to reports that certain sites have experienced ...
The test stick is swabbed along the upper and lower gum once and placed into the test tube for 20 minutes before reading the results. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the approval ...
OraSure Technologies Inc. (Bethlehem, PA) has taken another step toward seeking FDA approval for home use of its OraQuick Advance rapid HIV test. In March, the company announced that it had contracted ...