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At 01:02 PM 10/21/99 -0400, [log in to unmask] wrote:

>The most important piece of information to me was to learn about the blood
>test that has been devised  by 'our ' researchers in recent months.  IT HAS
>98.85% SENSITIVITY WITH 100% SPECIFICITY FOR CELIAC SPRUE..... and they want
>to make it better!  For those of you who have not been able to get conclusive
>evidence that you ARE or  ARE NOT a celiac this is very good news indeed,  as
>it is for our children and our grandchildren and the generations to come.

Dona, that is good news, indeed. But when I asked my doc, who's a pretty
good one as docs go, to check on the possibility of using this test, he got
back to me after a week and said it was still very much in the development
stages and not available yet. Is this true? If not where would we find out
about it? -vance