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2024

Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Testing in Pregnancy: Time to Improve Adherence and Update Recommendations

Workforce Drug Test Cheating Surged in 2023, Finds Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index Analysis of Nearly 10 Million Drug Tests (Drug Testing Index™, 2024)

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Hepatitis C Virus Testing, Infection, and Cases Reported Through Public Health Surveillance During Expanded Screening Recommendations

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2023

The Growing Crisis of Novel Psychoactive Substances (Drug Misuse in America, 2023)

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Lipid Distributions in the Global Diagnostics Network Across Five Continents

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Post-Accident Workforce Drug Positivity for Marijuana Reaches 25-Year High (Drug Testing Index™, 2023)

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Hepatitis C Care Cascade Incarcerated or Detained Persons and General Population in California, 2011-2021

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2022

A Decade Lost to the Drug Crisis (Drug Misuse in America, 2022)

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New Cancer Diagnoses Still Lagging in the United States in Second Full Year of COVID-19 Pandemic

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Workforce Drug Test Positivity Climbs to Highest Level in Two Decades (Drug Testing Index™, 2022)

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Contributions of Glucose and Hemoglobin A1c Measurements in Diabetes Screening

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2021

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Physician Perspectives and Diagnostic Insights on the Drug Crisis and COVID-19 (Drug Misuse in America, 2021)

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Rise in Blood Pressure Observed Among US Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Patterns of Prostate-Specific Antigen Testing and Prostate Biopsies During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Individual- and Community-Level Factors Associated with Detectable and Elevated Blood Lead Levels in US Children

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Changes in Newly Identified Cancer Among US Patients From Before COVID-19 Through the First Full Year of the Pandemic

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COVID-19: Magnifying Racial Disparities in U.S. Healthcare

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Workforce Drug Test Positivity Continues at Historically High Levels (Drug Testing Index™, 2021)

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Decreases in Hepatitis C Testing and Treatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Screening in the U.S.

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2020

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COVID-19 Testing Hesitancy Among Americans

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Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Positivity Surges in Women Ages 18-30

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HPV Test Misses Twice as Many Women who Develop Cervical Cancer as Cotesting

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Changes in the Number of US Patients with Newly Identified Cancer Before and During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

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SARS-Cov-2 Positivity Rates Associated with Circulating 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Levels

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The Opioid Epidemic Within the COVID-19 Pandemic: Drug Testing in 2020

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Workforce Drug Testing Positivity Climbed to Highest Rate in 16 Years (Drug Testing Index™, 2020)

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Disparities in SARS-CoV-2 Positivity Rates: Associations with Race and Ethnicity

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2019

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Majority of Physicians Fear Another Prescription Drug Crisis (Drug Misuse in America, 2019)

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Workforce Drug Testing Positivity Climbs to Highest Rate Since 2004 (Drug Testing Index™, 2019)

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2018

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Lyme Disease: Quest data reveal more cases in more places

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Workforce Drug Positivity at Highest Rate in a Decade (Drug Testing Index™, 2018)

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Drug Misuse Rates Remain Constant at High Levels, and Dangerous Opioid-related Drug Combining Is Prevalent (Drug Misuse in America, 2018)

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2017

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One in Four Individuals Combine Opioids and Benzodiazepines, a Potentially Lethal Mix (Drug Misuse in America, 2017)

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Increases in Illicit Drugs, Including Cocaine, Drive Workforce Drug Positivity to Highest Rate in 12 Years (Drug Testing Index™, 2017)

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2016

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Unsafe Lead Levels in Children Found in Numerous Regions of the United States

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Drug Positivity in U.S. Workforce Rises to Highest Level in a Decade (Drug Testing Index™, 2016)

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One in Two American Adults Misuse Their Prescription Drugs (Drug Misuse in America, 2016)

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2015

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HPV-Only Screening Misses More Cervical Cancers in Women 30 and Older Than Pap-Only or Pap-HPV Co-testing

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Diabetes Diagnoses Surge in States that Expanded Medicaid Under the Affordable Care Act

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Illicit Drug Positivity Rate Increases Sharply in Workplace Testing (Drug Testing Index™, 2015)

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Prescription Drug Misuse in America: Diagnostic Insights into the Continuing Drug Epidemic Battle (Drug Misuse in America, 2015)

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Majority of Physicians Worry Signs of Addiction Were Missed During Pandemic, Finds New Quest Diagnostics Health Trends® Report

How the Pandemic Impacted Prostate Cancer Diagnostics

Pregnant Women, All Adults Should Be Tested For Hepatitis C At Least Once, Experts Say

Positive Marijuana Tests Are Up Among U.S. Workers

COVID-19 pandemic led to decreases in hepatitis C testing, treatment

Reduced Testing, Higher Positivity Rates for Prescription and Illegal Drugs During the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020

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