Reno-based VIP Dx (Viral Immune Pathology Diagnostics)
http://www.prohealth.com/library/showarticle.cfm?libid=3D14921<http://www.p=
rohealth.com/library/showarticle.cfm?libid=3D14921>October
12, 2009
Rumor on the ProHealth Message Boards has it that Viral Immune Pathology
Diagnostics (VIP Dx) in Reno, Nevada (www.redlabsusa.com), will soon make
available a test kit for the XMRV virus - the retrovirus which most of the
world knows by now is thought to be a biomarker for a large proportion of
chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) patients.
According to the buzz, ME/CFS patients & their physicians will be able to
order VIP Dx kits as soon as pricing is established =96 and that should be
Friday, Oct 16, according to a ProHealth ME/CFS Message Board
user<http://www.prohealth.com/me-cfs/blog/boardDetail.cfm?id=3D1368730>
who
has already arranged to receive a kit when they become available for
shipment. According to her, =93They send it to you by FedEx and you have to
have a Dr. sign off and take it to a lab. [VIP Dx] pays for it to be sent
back.=94
According to the initial news about this - posted Oct 9 on the CFS Warrior
blog (http://cfswarrior.blogspot.com), there is =93a PCR test for the XMRV
virus itself. Another test kit recommended by Dr. Paul Cheney is the NKCP &
LYEA test=85 If you want to be tested call the lab at 775-351-1890 and they
will ship out a kit to you. Your doctor has to sign off, then take it to a
local lab to get the test done and then it gets shipped overnight back to
VIP Labs. It takes about two weeks to get the results. The woman I spoke to
was very nice. They are swamped with calls but expected it.=94
*VIP Dx is the new name of the former REDLABS USA*, launched years ago with
the assistance of Belgium-based ME/CFS researcher Dr. Kenny De Meirleir, wh=
o
has no financial interest in the venture. It was named after De Meirleir=92=
s
own R.E.D. Laboratories <http://www.redlabs.be/>, a biotechnology company i=
n
Belgium focused on =93developing clinical diagnostic tests and therapies fo=
r
chronic immune diseases.=94 VIP Dx is located geographically near the
Whittemore-Peterson Institute, which is part of the University of Nevada,
Reno. VIP=92s medical director - Dr. Vincent Lombardi, PhD =96 was recently
hired from the UN-Reno School of Medicine, and reportedly played a role in
the WPI testing.
*Test Availability from Whittemore-Peterson?*
Meanwhile, according to the XMRV FAQ at the WPI
website<http://www.wpinstitute.org/xmrv/xmrv_qa.html>,
=93The WPI has developed a blood test for the detection of XMRV. The test i=
s
currently undergoing clinical evaluation and validation. We hope to have a
clinical test available to the public within the year.=94
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