Investigations have found that hospitals and child protective services (CPS) agencies often rely on drug screening tests with false-positive rates reported to be as high as 50%. Despite this, results ...

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has stopped using a particular brand of cocaine field testing kits after more than a decade due to an investigation by one of their detectives which revealed the kits ...

Tens of thousands of people are wrongfully arrested for crimes based on a false positive result from a field drug test each year, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A false positive pregnancy test result is uncommon, but it can happen. Learn how things like medications and medical conditions ...

A case of false-positive alcohol toxicology tests believed to be linked to treatment with sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors raises concern that the widely used diabetes drugs could ...

Wendy Wisner is a journalist and international board certified lactation consultant (IBCLC). She has written about all things pregnancy, maternal/child health ...