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"This greatly strengthens our retail presence on the West Coast, especially in California where there is a strong demand for our products," said Jim Kammann, the company's director of sales. "Our products are now available in over 21,000 drug stores nationwide."
Home Access Health markets the only at-home HIV test approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Home Access(R) Express(TM) (results in three days) and Home Access(R) (results in seven days) allow people to conveniently and anonymously test for HIV from the privacy of their home with test results clinically proven to be as accurate as HIV tests administered by doctors and hospitals. Data from the Home Access clinical trials has been peer reviewed and published in the American Medical Association's Archives of Internal Medicine (Vol. 157, 2/10/97).
People interested in purchasing the Home Access(R) Express(TM) and Home Access(R) HIV home tests will find the products in the "home diagnostics" section of all 345 Longs stores.
Longs Drug Stores, with sales averaging over $8 million per store, operates 345 stores in California, Hawaii, Nevada and Colorado. Current news on the Company can be obtained through a toll-free service, 1 888 LDG-NEWS, or via the Internet @ http://www.longs.com.
Home Access(R) HIV tests are also available by mail by calling 1 800 HIV-TEST and are carried in more than 21,000 drugstores and drug wholesale distributors throughout the US including: AmeriSource, Bindley Western, Bergen Brunswig, Brooks, Cardinal Health, CVS Corporation [NYSE:CVS - news], Duane Reade, Eckerd Drug, Farmacias El Amal, Genovese, Giant Eagle, Kroger, Longs Drug Stores, McKesson Drug Company, Osco, Phar-Mor, Revco, Rite Aid, Sav-On, Thrifty PayLess, Walgreens and Wal-Mart. More information about Home Access Health can be found at the website www.homeaccess.com.
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