After Elizabeth Moreno had back surgery in late 2015, her surgeon prescribed an opioid painkiller and a follow-up drug test that seemed routine — until the lab slapped her with a bill for $17,850. A ...

In her late 20s and attending college in Texas, Elizabeth Moreno suffered from debilitating back pain caused by a spinal abnormality. "I just could not live with the pain," she says. "I couldn't get ...

Medically reviewed by Steffini Stalos, DO Key Takeaways Alcohol can be detected in urine for up to 72 hours after heavy use. Ethyl glucuronide (EtG) tests can show alcohol use up to 80 hours later.

A new generation of aging tests is moving out of specialist labs and into everyday life, promising to tell you how old your ...

Some people are more likely to have protein in their urine. If your doctor does a routine dipstick protein urine test, you might need to do a 24-hour urine protein test. What Is a 24-Hour Urine ...

Talk about flushing away money. The owners of a former Charlotte drug-testing lab have agreed to pay more than $7 million to the federal government to settle claims that they bilked taxpayers with ...

A urine protein test measures the amount of protein in a urine sample. A doctor may suggest this test to help evaluate and monitor kidney function and potentially detect kidney damage. The kidneys ...

Lab tests that measure urine concentration and hormonal levels can help diagnose diabetes insipidus, a condition that causes excessive urination. Share on Pinterest Jovana Milanko/Stocksy United ...

A simple urine test could detect pancreatic and prostate cancer with up to a 99% rate of accuracy, says a team of researchers from the Surface & Nano Materials Division of the Korea Institute of ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a method for diagnosing urinary tract infections that ...

A Pennsylvania laboratory overcharged New Jersey's Medicaid program by millions of dollars, including more than $1,000 to test urine for drugs, a test that it had charged others as little as $2.38 for ...

(CBS DETROIT) — A Toxicology lab with several medical practices in Michigan will pay over $4.4 million to settle federal claims of unnecessary testing and submitting Medicare claims for reimbursement ...