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PARC Builds iPod-Sized HIV Detector

Posted by timothy on from the use-the-y-jack dept.

MikeChino writes "Right now it's difficult, if not impossible, to quickly detect HIV in patients living in impoverished countries. That may all change soon, though — researchers at a California outfit called the Palo Alto Research Center have built an iPod-sized handheld device that can provide an immune check-up in under 10 minutes — all with a prick of the finger. With millions of people around the world without access to a full-size laboratory, PARC's device could revolutionize the detection and treatment of HIV."

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  1. that's crap by sittingQuietly · · Score: 1, Troll

    A dropping concentration of these cells in HIV+ patients' blood is a reasonable metric for the progression of AIDS.

    translation: a lot of the time it isn't.

    which means this machine will be responsible for more of the current tragedy taking place: healthy people are talked into taking poisonous AIDS drugs, the side effects of which will convince they were right to take the drugs. after years of debilitation finally their livers or hearts will fail, and AIDS hacks will call it "AIDS".

    think this is crazy? did you know right now in the USA liver failure is the leading cause of AIDS death?

    these are hacks. these mainstream scientists. hacks. people need to wake the fk up