Medscape

Drug-susceptibility Testing in TB: Current Status and Future Prospects

For years, conventional DST on solid egg- or agar-based media was a standard technology and is still utilized in many countries worldwide. The methodologies are the proportion method, the absolute ...
Fleet Owner

The state of alternative drug testing in trucking

With more than 230,000 positive drug tests since 2020, how the trucking industry detects drivers’ drug use is an important topic. Currently, Department of Transportation drug testing relies entirely ...
UPI

To promote drug safety, FDA to replace animal testing with AI-based experiments, other methods

April 10 (UPI) --The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is replacing animal testing with human-relevant methods, including artificial intelligence, when developing monoclonal antibody therapies and ...
The New Indian Express

Science-driven testing methods needed to strengthen drug development in India: Report

NEW DELHI: As India’s pharmaceutical industry moves towards becoming a 500 billion dollars global powerhouse by 2047, a new report highlighted the growing role of non-animal, science-driven testing ...
Medscape

Drug-susceptibility Testing in TB: Current Status and Future Prospects

For 2007, the WHO estimated 511,000 cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB, representing approximately 5% of all TB cases worldwide. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) strains have been detected in at ...