Since independent vehicle crash testing began in the mid-1990s, automakers have been incentivized to make safety changes that ...

Industry experts describe how viral safety testing is evolving to ensure that gene therapies and viral-mediated therapies move more quickly to clinic Keeping the world’s medicines safe from unwanted ...

The FDA tested infant formula for contaminants, finding the U.S. supply is safe, but small exposures still matter for newborns.

The Food and Drug Administration recently announced a temporary suspension of its quality control program for testing milk and other dairy products. This unexpected pause comes during significant ...

For stable, symptomatic patients with suspected CAD who are deemed to be at “minimal risk” using a CT-based tool, deferral of diagnostic testing is just as safe as the usual approach and is even ...

There's a comfort in knowing that if, heaven forbid, you and your family members are involved in a collision, the car-buying decision you made will keep you all safe. Thankfully, we don't need to rely ...

Steve Rowson remembers the day he was first asked about helmets. An engineering student at Virginia Tech (VT) in Blacksburg, Virginia, at the time, Rowson and a few of his classmates were approached ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration collects crash data about autonomous vehicles, but only issues voluntary guidelines about expectations for those vehicles. Those guidelines softened ...

A nuclear stress test shows how well blood travels through your heart at rest and exertion. Doctors often use it to check for coronary artery disease (CAD). Research suggests nuclear stress testing ...

Fuzz testing, or fuzzing, is a way to automatically test applications. It can find errors from memory leaks to buffer overflows. It has garnered interest around safety and security and can be a ...