testing firm pulls charter-school question after complaints of ‘brainwashing’ - Chicago Sun-Times
25 May 2012, 8:00 pm
A national testing company has ash-canned a reading passage that critics say subjected a captive audience of Chicago Public School children to pro-charter-school “brainwashing.’’ The Scantron Corporation took action this month after the ...

Walgreens Offering Free Blood Pressure testing Daily Throughout May in Connection with Million Hearts Initiative and Fight Against Heart Disease - Yahoo Finance
25 May 2012, 12:44 pm
As part of National High Blood Pressure Education Month, Walgreens (NYSE: WAG - News)(NASDAQ: WAG - News) today announced it is once again offering free blood pressure testing at all of its stores and Take Care Clinics every day throughout the ...

OraSure Technologies Announces Rapid HCV testing Initiatives for First National Hepatitis testing Day - Yahoo Finance
25 May 2012, 11:54 am
BETHLEHEM, Pa., May 18, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OraSure Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:OSUR - News) today announced its support of numerous rapid hepatitis C (HCV) testing initiatives for the first National Hepatitis testing Day, taking place on ...

HGH testing in NFL no closer to starting because of search for new candidate to lead study - Washington Post
24 May 2012, 8:52 pm
The NFL and the players’ union are looking for a new candidate to oversee a population study that would be a precursor to players being blood-tested for human growth hormone, union executive director DeMaurice Smith said Thursday. That search ...

HIV testing: ‘An over-the-counter option offers privacy’ - The Hindu
23 May 2012, 6:58 pm
The OraQuick In-Home HIV Test was recently approved by the FDA advisory committee for sale over the counter. FDA regulators will take a decision in a few months' time. The committee felt that the benefits of the oral swab test far outweigh the risks of ...

Groupon is testing a payments offering to compete with Square and PayPal - Venturebeat.com
23 May 2012, 6:58 pm
Groupon is testing out an offering of its own in the increasingly crowded payments space, according to an email I was forwarded by a business that was solicited for the service. (Disclosure: I have various puts against Groupon.) The pricing is ...

Site of SAT Mishap Is Reinstated as testing Site - New York Times Blogs
23 May 2012, 4:28 pm
The Packer Collegiate Institute, a Brooklyn private school where the SAT scores of 199 students were invalidated because of serious violations with the test’s administration, will be allowed to continue serving as an SAT testing site starting ...

Apple reportedly testing iPhone with near-16:9 display ratio - Los Angeles Times
23 May 2012, 10:30 am
Apple is testing two versions of the sixth-generation iPhone, both of which include a longer display that brings the smartphone near a 16:9 screen ratio, according to a report. Both of the phones have a new 3.999-inch display, which has been the ...

Prostate-Cancer Screening: Men Should Forgo PSA testing, Panel Advises - Time
23 May 2012, 5:01 am
Men should not get routinely screened for prostate cancer using the PSA test, a government panel recommends. The panel finds there is little evidence that testing for PSA, or prostate-specific antigen, saves men’s lives, and that it causes too ...

Scientists to use genetic testing to decide if bigfoot really exists - msnbc.com
22 May 2012, 12:04 pm
LONDON  — Scientists are turning to genetic testing to see if they can prove the existence of the elusive hairy humanoid known across the world as bigfoot, yeti and sasquatch. A joint project between Oxford University and Switzerland's ...