Erin Tompkins spoke briefly about her experience taking a Theranos test at a Walgreens store in Arizona in May 2015. Her test results, displayed in court, showed the detection of an HIV antibody.

During an 8-month period in 2007, 2356 ED patients were invited to participate in the HIV testing trial; 1397 (59.3%) agreed. Of the 854 who actually underwent rapid testing, 849 had interpretable ...

Among 26,528 HIV RNA tests conducted during the open-label extension, researchers identified 22 isolated false-positive HIV RNA tests, for an overall false-positive rate of 0.08%.

An attorney for Elizabeth Holmes delved into the science of HIV testing during a brief cross examination of patient Erin Tompkins. Katherine Trefz walked Ms. Tompkins through the steps required to ...

And to prevent the mostly hypothetical risk of a false negative HIV test, blood from these potential donors could be individually screened using nucleic acid testing.