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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Medscape

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

In recent years, many efforts have been undertaken to establish new methods for DST to be used on a routine level. The epidemiology of drug-resistant and MDR-TB has posed an enormous need for faster ...