“In the last three months, we’ve seen a rate of eight false positives per 1000 tests.”
The OraQuick Advance Test for HIV, which uses a mouth swab to test for the virus, is producing false positives at twice the usual rate, says Shelley Facente of San Francisco’s Department of Public Health (The Washington Times, 10 December)
“America can take part in the bidding for the construction of Iran’s nuclear power plant if they observe the basic standards and quality.”
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Hamid Reza Asefi, spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry, on attempts to ease US suspicions that Iran is using its nuclear programme as a cover to build atomic weapons (Associated Press, 12 December)
“It is not exactly the right place to harmonise your yin and yang.”
Commuter Verena Montag on “wellness” trains in southern Germany, on which physiotherapists and yoga instructors teach relaxation techniques (The Daily Telegraph, London, 12 December)
“We have looked in vain…for a case where a nose was sewed back that had stayed for 2 hours in a stomach. We are the first to do this.”
Jiri Vesely, plastic surgeon at St Ann’s Faculty Hospital in Brno, the Czech Republic, on sewing back a boy’s nose after recovering it from a dog’s stomach (The Times, London, 13 December).
“The people who have prepared this book have tried consistently to put the Word of God first and science second. [If] at any point God’s Word is not put first, the author apologizes.”
Christopher Patti, legal counsel for the University of California, reading from a Christian textbook taught in schools that the university says does not meet its admission requirements (San Francisco Chronicle, 12 December)
