BTNX, the Canadian rapid test supplier that won an estimated $2 billion in federal contracts, denied that Health Canada used BTNX’s edited study to evaluate the rapid test kit that the federal ...

Update: There is an update at the bottom of this story in regard to a “pre-print” study of four rapid tests that the federal government had distributed to provincial governments. Global News also has ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Testing kits for xylazine, the animal tranquilizer "tranq" that's often laced with opioids, could soon be coming to Philadelphia. While the tests would help decipher if the drug ...

Health Canada says a rapid coronavirus blood test that's being manufactured in Canada and shipped to the United States is not ready for use here. CBC News has learned that tests such as the one made ...

The biotech company BTNX says it is shipping out new test strips this week that detect the presence of xylazine, an animal sedative that officials say is increasingly being mixed with fentanyl. As ...

There’s a new tool that may help address the dangers of xylazine, a powerful animal tranquilizer increasingly found in street drugs. A handful of harm reduction programs in Massachusetts have started ...

CALGARY, Alberta, Sept. 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Credivera announced today that it has expanded its service offerings to their customers through a collaboration with BTNX Inc. (“BTNX”), a ...

Jess Tilley pushes aside magazines on a waiting room table and lines up three used "cookers" — small aluminum caps in which someone mixed and heated up their drugs. She mixes water with drug residue ...

In an effort to reduce Franklin County's climbing overdose death rate, Columbus Public Health is piloting a program to equip drug users with test strips to determine whether their drugs are laced with ...

A new test that tells drug users whether heroin, cocaine or other street drugs are laced with super deadly fentanyl is getting publicity as a major weapon in the fight against drug overdose deaths, ...