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Theranos Has Struggled with Blood Tests

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Re: Theranos Has Struggled with Blood Tests

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Side note: Did anyone else find the writing for this article absolutely horrendous? “They were never able to produce them,” she says. Ms. King says the company did show detailed testing-accuracy data to the nurse. I would have flunked freshman-english if I wrote papers like this. There was zero effort to link thoughts together all-throughout the piece. I thought the point of a pay-wall was to promote and support good…

You're quoting out of context. The "she" in the quote is not Ms. King, which is very clear in the article.

Uh, I understood what they were trying to say, I'm stating that they were shitty at actually saying it.

If someone expects me to shell out a subscription for their articles, the absolute least they should do is make sure the writing is above a 5th grade level.

Re: Theranos Has Struggled with Blood Tests

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is what the results look like: http://padlet.com/dpetersen/khmmi11wy8hz http://padlet.com/dpetersen/r6dg1vbxmz92 I don't know how an individual could evaluate the accuracy of these results, but the same goes for a non-Theranos blood test as well.

Is your friend doing okay? First link shows Vitamin D is very low and should be affecting your friends energy levels at the very least. Second link shows a 1500%(!) increase in AST in under a year and its way over limit. One way to evaluate the accuracy is the sniff test, e.g. is the lab result congruent with how the person feels? Information on the internet around understanding your medical tests is pretty crappy un…

Thanks for asking. He is doing fine.

His doctor thinks the high test may have been a result of hard work he was doing with a personal trainer, after a few years of not working out.

He had AST/ALT tested again a few weeks later, also with Theranos, and it was down dramatically (though still above reference range).

It does sounds like he could have been be a victim of their accuracy problems.

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