These common drug tests lead to tens of thousands of wrongful arrests a year, experts say. One state is fighting back

A great-grandmother’s medicine tested positive for cocaine – spawning a 15-month legal nightmare, forcing her to refinance ...
11Alive

Georgia families say newborn drug testing law is punishing parents for legal prescriptions

ATLANTA — Every 25 minutes in the United States, a baby is born experiencing opioid withdrawal, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It's a crisis that demands action, but an ...
Hoodline

MSU Lab’s AI ‘GPS’ Zeroes In On Drug Hope For Deadly Liver Cancer, Lung Scarring

A Michigan State University team is betting that artificial intelligence can speed up the hunt for new medicines, and early lab results suggest they might be onto something. Using a custom AI system, ...
CNN

CDC pauses dozens of types of lab testing during evaluation and in wake of downsizing

The federal government’s disease-tracking agency has paused its diagnostic testing for rabies, monkeypox and a number of other infectious diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this ...
The New York Times

How the Internet Became the ‘Cookbook’ of the Drug Trade

A baffling overdose death took investigators to the frontier of ultra-potent synthetic drugs. The clues were hauntingly familiar. The New Drug War A baffling overdose death took investigators to the ...
Phys.org

Magnetic fields guide lab-grown blood vessels into precise patterns for drug testing

Animal studies often fail to predict human tissue responses to new drugs or newly developed therapies. Besides generating tremendous costs for clinical studies, it also raises significant ethical ...
Autoblog

Inside the Crash-Test Lab Making Jeep, Ram, and Dodge Safer for 50 Years

Stellantis’ Orbassano Safety Center conducted over 24,000 crash tests, as well as thousands of digital simulations. Stellantis celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Orbassano Safety Center. The ...
ABC 7 Chicago

Report on UIC lab falls short in addressing allegedly flawed results in DUI cases: commission

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Illinois Forensic Science Commission is responding to a drug testing scandal, first uncovered by the ABC7 I-Team, at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Many Illinois marijuana ...
WUNC

To stop Africa from hemorrhaging local talent, scientist creates drug discovery lab

The discovery of new drugs often takes place in wealthier countries, which means the drugs are often tailored to those countries' populations and not so much for the populations in what's often called ...
Electrek

Donut Lab solid-state battery retains 97.7% charge after 10 days in third test

Donut Lab has released its third independent test report from VTT, the Finnish Technical Research Centre, and it confirms another claim: the solid-state battery retains 97.7% of its charged capacity ...
Electrek

Donut Lab solid-state battery survives 100°C discharge in second independent test

Donut Lab has released a second set of independent test results for its controversial solid-state battery — this time proving the cell can discharge at extreme temperatures up to 100°C and actually ...
STAT

Same blood test, different results: Why isn’t this common thyroid screening reliable?

Bonsack is a patient advocate based in Moab, Utah. In the midst of a health crisis a few years ago, doctors repeatedly checked my thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), revealing an odd pattern: My test ...