Drug tests: too speedy - or safe enough?
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Government regulators now look to approve as quickly as possible medicines whose benefits exceed their risks.
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Baseball Federal investigators can keep using the names and urine samples of about 100 major leaguers who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs, a federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled yesterday. Investigators seized computer files containing the test results in 2004 during raids of labs involved in Major League Baseball's drug-testing program. The investigators had search warrants for only 11 ...
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MONDAY, Feb. 26 (HealthDay News) -- The future of lung cancer detection may involve a simple, inexpensive breath test that can pick up the chemical "signature" of patients with the disease, a new study suggests.
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More than a decade ago, a howl went up about the way new drugs were tested. Virtually all trials were limited to white males, even though some medical differences based on race are widely acknowledged.
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NEW YORK  - In a study conducted at two major HIV centers in Singapore, rapid HIV self-tests were used improperly, or the results were interpreted incorrectly, by individuals at risk for HIV infection or those who were already infected.
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Animal drug tests are often of poor quality and conflict with human trials, researchers warn.
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The new test takes less than 12 hours, federal health officials said Monday.
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A urine test that detects proteins  given off by malignant growths can identify bladder cancer  faster and perhaps reduce the use of more invasive procedures,  researchers said on Tuesday.
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Online symptoms searches can be useful. They can also give you acute misinformation.
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A test that uses DNA to detect colorectal cancer is better than the most commonly used noninvasive screening, but a new study finds it still falls far
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A new method of diagnosing heart disease takes only seconds to conduct, but critics say the technique is ripe for overuse.
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Subjecting children to drug testing is usually a bad idea for a host of reasons, including often inaccurate results and loss of the child's trust, a leading pediatricians' group said on Monday.
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Promising drug test results make this a company to watch.
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Pain is difficult to measure, and those who treat pain sufferers have to make highly subjective decisions about dosage levels of drugs that can be abused or even resold. When a doctor gets it wrong, is that bad medicine â or a drug felony?
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Scientists in the US say they have developed a faster, cheaper and more reliable test to detect bladder cancer.
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Dec. 7, 2004 -- A new study helps put to rest worries that the drug L-dopa might speed Parkinson&#39;s disease. L-dopa is the gold standard treatment for Parkinson&#39;s disease.
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DESPITE an exciting new development this week in the race to find cheaper and more effective malaria drugs, a group of scientists is urging health authorities to consider screening travellers from malaria-infested areas to prevent the spread of drug