UK medicines agency seizes HIV home-test kits over false result risk

UK medicines agency seizes HIV home-test kits over false result risk

ByMatthew Betteridge

More than 100 Hightop kits, which have not met EU regulations, seized as agency warns consumers against using them More than 100 HIV home-testing kits have been seized by the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) amid fears over their reliability. The agency believes it has seized all stock of the Hightop HIV/Aids…

Drugs cocktail ‘cut HIV deaths by 27%’

Drugs cocktail ‘cut HIV deaths by 27%’

ByMatthew Betteridge

More than 10,000 lives a year could be saved with a simple change to HIV medication, doctors say. HIV is often diagnosed late, when it has already ravaged the immune system, leaving people vulnerable. To counter this, researchers tried prescribing a cocktail of drugs at the start of HIV therapy to treat “opportunistic” infections. The…