This type of routine evaluation is an important part of a safety program, because if we can understand the root causes of even minor lab errors, we can put measures in place to hopefully prevent ...

OHIO — A lab error led to inaccurate COVID-19 reporting Tuesday by the Ohio Department of Health. The department reported an "artificially low, incomplete" COVID-19 ...

During cross-examination of Arizona doctor Mark Burnes, a defense lawyer tried to establish that clinical labs, such as the one run by Theranos, have errors. Katherine Trefz went through various ...

After one of the city’s firearms examiners failed an annual proficiency test last year, examiners at the Department of Forensic Sciences had to go back and look at over 100 ballistics tests conducted ...

Colorado's crime lab is one of many across the country that have come under fire in recent years as the ripple effects of misconduct and lab errors came to light. Colorado authorities have pledged to ...

Reporting all biosafety errors could improve labs worldwide and increase public trust in biological research by David Gillum, Kathleen Vogel, Rebecca Moritz, The Conversation Add as preferred source ...

Social media has been lively recently with reports from Cyprus and France claiming to have found a new hybrid variant of SARS-CoV-2. Dubbed Deltacron, it appears to be a combination of the Delta and ...

This story was originally published on May 17, 2015, as part of the "Hidden Errors" project. Everyone assumes lab results are correct. For Kenneth Drew, the results showed he had HIV in 2011. By the ...

The high stakes of DNA testing have prompted debate about whether the nation's crime labs should have to produce error rates. Defense experts and academics say such a ...