After a year on therapy, 54% to 57% of patients on Tasigna had no signs of leukemia using the most sensitive test vs. just 30% of those who were on Gleevec.
Dr Lee accepts that the new test is not quite as sensitive as one of the alternatives, the PCR test, which detects DNA samples from chlamydia.
People who feel they are gluten-sensitive but do not test positive for celiac disease do not have celiac disease.
There are those like Phoebe Carney who have had the opposite experience, with a test that wasn't sensitive enough.
To investigate whether acid reflux is involved at all, doctors can do a 24-hour pH test, inserting an acid-sensitive probe through the patient's nose into the esophagus, where it records any episodes of reflux.
However, according to Dipankar Chakraborti, head of environmental studies at Jadavpur University in Calcutta, said some of the test kits being used are nowhere near sensitive enough to give a reliable answer.
It allows diabetics to test for glucose levels in areas less sensitive than their fingertips such as the forearm, the fleshy part of the upper arm and the base of the thumb.
The sound is captured on super sensitive recording equipment, the sort normally used in industry to test the strength of bridges or planes.
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Happily, though, Synaptics says that's something it's able to fine-tune, depending on whether a PC maker wants a firmer keyboard or something a bit softer. (We say the market has enough flat, lifeless Ultrabook keyboards, but that's just us.) In any case, we hope to test a more polished keyboard sometime later -- one that has all those additional touch-sensitive features enabled.
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