drug abuse
Thermo Fisher Scientific Partners With Mindray on Drugs of Abuse Testing
Under the exclusive agreement, Thermo Fisher is distributing Mindray's BS-480 and BA-800M clinical chemistry analyzers together with its own assays in the US and Canada.
Healthcare Company, Lab Pays $845K to Settle Accusations of Unnecessary Drug Screenings
The healthcare company and its subsidiary allegedly ordered residents of a residential treatment center to undergo unnecessary drug screenings multiple times a week.
UPenn researchers believe that their lateral flow assay has the potential to be the first point-of-care test that can detect fentanyl and its metabolite, norfentanyl, at clinically relevant cutoffs.
Siemens Healthineers to Distribute ARK Diagnostics Fentanyl Assay
The FDA-cleared and CE-marked assay detects both fentanyl and norfentanyl, allowing labs to identify more true positives, according to Siemens.
Ceres Nanosciences Gets $225K Grant to Develop Technology for Fentanyl Detection
The company's Nanotrap technology uses hydrogel nanoparticles functionalized with internal affinity baits to enrich target analytes for downstream analysis.