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Tiger Woods said Wednesday that drug testing on the PGA Tour will start July 8, and he is about halfway through the tour's anti-doping manual sent to players earlier this month.
Researchers hope to develop faster and better tests for diarrheal diseases with the help of a $5.6 million grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to a vaccine development center at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the school announced Tuesday.
The state Department of Education acknowledged Monday it violated the free speech rights of a standardized test critic and agreed to pay him $187,000 to settle his lawsuit over being dumped as a speaker at a state-run conference.
The LPGA Tour on Wednesday released its policy for drug testing that will start next season, making it the first professional golf organization to require randomly selected players to prove they are clean.
Starting in July on the PGA Tour, players who register for a tournament could be given a locker, a tee time for their pro-am and a cup to submit a sample for their drug test.
Increased supervision of genetic testing is needed to ensure the usefulness of the increasingly popular tests, often promoted as a way to personalize medical treatment, according to a government draft report Tuesday.
Loyola University Medical Center on Monday announced plans to start testing all incoming patients for a drug-resistant staph germ and isolating those who carry the dangerous bacteria.
More than 30 states have laws barring doctors from heeding a call by U.S. health officials to routinely test Americans for the AIDS virus, researchers report. And states don't seem to be in any rush to change that.
In some South Dakota counties, people repeatedly arrested for drunken driving can continue to drive, but they must report to their local sheriff for breath testing twice a day — every morning and every night.
Don't expect your doctor to nudge you toward an HIV test anytime soon, despite bold new government advice that most Americans be tested for the AIDS virus.
The Agriculture Department is cutting its tests for mad cow disease by about 90 percent, drawing protests from consumer groups.
The Agriculture Department is looking to scale back its $1 million-a-week testing program for mad cow disease.
All drug tests given to NHL players were clean during the first season of the league's anti-doping program, adopted last year in the labor agreement that ended the yearlong lockout.
Battered by one calamity after another, Indonesians have found a resilience that has amazed even foreign aid workers. It's rooted in a widely held belief that the troubles were sent by God, either as a test of their love for him or as punishment for straying from his teachings.
Federal scientists have started testing migratory birds for signs of a dangerous bird flu that could show up in North America.
Testing for the AIDS virus could become part of routine physical exams for adults and teens if doctors follow new U.S. guidelines expected to be issued by this summer. Federal health officials say they'd like HIV testing to be as common as a cholesterol check.
Nigerian medical experts have concluded that Pfizer Inc. violated international law during a 1996 epidemic when the company tested an unapproved drug on children with brain infections, The Washington Post reported.
The Humvee's headlights shone incredibly bright, casting daylight clarity on a line of spruce trees, every needle standing out in stark contrast to the dark night of Alaska's interior. Next to the vehicle, the incandescent lights on another Humvee glowed like mere candles. It was time to study an emerging technology in one of the harshest places on earth, the Army's sprawling Cold Regions Test Center near Fort Greely.
The researchers have developed two biochips, the DataChip and the MetaChip, that combine to reveal the potential toxicity of chemicals and drug candidates on various organs in the human body, and whether those compounds will become toxic when metabolized in the body, all in one e …
Hundreds of thousands of exam copies used, Globe probe finds By Bryan Bender and Kevin Baron
Dozens of players have been linked to taking performance-enhancing substances in a report on Major League Baseball that alleges a serious drug culture.
Is it just me, or are we ignoring the implications of the placebo effect? If sugar pills and saline injections have some efficacy against practically every affliction known to man, maybe we're wasting our time with all this "reproducible results" and "scientific integrity" folder …
Radioactive monitoring of beaches on the Scottish side of the Solway Firth is due to start next month. It follows the discovery of radioactive particles from Sellafield on beaches in North Cumbria.
After five years of effort, states have implemented most of the test-based accountability requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001, and now must focus their efforts on improving poor-performing schools that have been identified, according to a new U.S.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is still struggling with deciding what ethical safeguards are needed in its experiments testing pesticides and other chemicals on human beings.
OTTAWA - Donald Bernicky, one of a group of atomic veterans fighting the government and the Defence Department for recognition and financial compensation, died on Remembrance Day at 74. Bernicky attended six atomic bomb detonations in 1957.
George Clarke was taking in the peacefulness of a Nevada desert morning in the summer of 1957 when a voice came booming out of a nearby loudspeaker.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Utah Sen. Bob Bennett has reintroduced legislation what would require congressional approval and extensive reviews before nuclear weapons tests are allowed.
OTTAWA, Nov 6 (Reuters) - A group of Canadian veterans who endured Cold War-era nuclear explosions in Nevada from just 1,000 yards (meters) away, threatened on Tuesday to sue the Canadian government for compensation.
Most Americans haven't heard of body burden testing, but it's a hot topic among environmentalists and public health experts who warn that the industrial chemicals we come into contact with every day are accumulating in our bodies and endangering our health in ways we have yet to …
A STUDENT was allowed to become a teacher even though it took 28 attempts to pass a basic numeracy test that included questions such as "what is 6.03 multiplied by 100?".
Consumer watchdog Which? has advised Britons on buying anything from bird-box cameras to paper dresses, toy wheelbarrows to deodorants. On the eve of its 50th birthday, what's it like behind the scenes at its product testing lab?
The Food and Drug Administration does very little to ensure the safety of the millions of people who participate in clinical trials, a federal investigator has found.
By a vote of 4-3, Republicans on Ohio's State Controlling Board blocked Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's proposed $1.8 million contract for voting machine testing. Brunner had already set aside the $1.8 million for the test.
In a new scientific technique that could prove a boon to legal cases, samples of DNA from a healthy person can be compared against a claimant's DNA.
"Ohio Republicans have blocked a proposal to test electronic voting machines prior to the 2008 presidential primary.
School may be hazardous to your children's health.
The school was one of 42 across the state whose staff were recently awarded cash bonuses because of student improvement on standardized assessment tests. ---------------------- Principal Mary Short said as a group the staff felt the cash bonuses were inappropriate.
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