After Elizabeth Moreno had back surgery in late 2015, her surgeon prescribed an opioid painkiller and a follow-up drug test that seemed routine — until the lab slapped her with a bill for $17,850. A ...

WASHINGTON — Drug testing facilities that have invested in oral-fluid-based testing for motor carriers, airlines, railroads and pipeline operators are pushing back on a proposal by the U.S. Department ...

The cups of urine travel by express mail to the Comprehensive Pain Specialists lab in an industrial park in Brentwood, Tenn., not far from Nashville. Most days bring more than 700 of the little sealed ...

At-home drug tests are urine or saliva tests that can identify if illegal or prescriptions drugs are present in your body. These tests are an alternative to going in person to a laboratory or other ...

A urine protein test measures the amount of protein in a urine sample. A doctor may suggest this test to help evaluate and monitor kidney function and potentially detect kidney damage. The kidneys ...

A Pennsylvania laboratory overcharged New Jersey's Medicaid program by millions of dollars, including more than $1,000 to test urine for drugs, a test that it had charged others as little as $2.38 for ...

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A new generation of aging tests is moving out of specialist labs and into everyday life, promising to tell you how old your ...

Millions of laboratory urine tests are carried out each year for pregnant women, patients at risk of kidney failure, and people who think they may have urinary tract infections. The tests are ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a method for diagnosing urinary tract infections that ...

Medically reviewed by Steffini Stalos, DO Key Takeaways Alcohol can be detected in urine for up to 72 hours after heavy use. Ethyl glucuronide (EtG) tests can show alcohol use up to 80 hours later.