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How to Test Well Water

If you live off well water, you obviously want to make sure it's safe for drinking. The best way to test your water is to send samples to a laboratory for testing, as this method provides the most accurate results. You can buy home testing...

How To Choose A Water Testing Laboratory For Your Water Well

Annual water testing will help you know what is in your well water. learn how to evaluate a well water testing laboratory.

18 water testing labs become dysfunctional

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Well Water Testing

How Do You Know If Your Drinking Water is Safe? The Chester Township Environmental Commission and Chester Borough are sponsoring well water testing for residents. If your household water comes from a private well, it is not tested by any state or local authority. Well water tests can be expensive, but Chester residents may have their …

5 Preventive Medical Tests to Get Done

Protect your healthy by having these five preventive medical tests done. Find out if your health insurance can help to cover the costs.

Buying or Selling a Home? Have the Well Water Tested.

When you buy or sell a home that has a well, be sure to put this near the top of your to-do list: Have the drinking water tested for contaminants.

Waiting for medical test results? Calm your nerves with this prayer

Waiting for the results of a medical test, or for a diagnosis, can be agonizing. The anxiety of not knowing can be all-consuming. If this is something you or a loved one is experiencing, consider p…

Home Well Water Testing Kits for Family Fun and Safety

Have you ever wondered about home well water testing kits and whether or not you should test your water? He's water you should consider.

How to interpret a water test for nitrate

By: Brad Carlson, Extension educator The focus on nitrate concentration in water, both surface and groundwater, has prompted many farmers a...

3 Benefits of Water Testing

It’s an unfortunate fact that sometimes the water that enters our homes from the municipal supply is low in quality. However, using bottled water is not a good option: this water is frequently nothing more than lightly filtered municipal water.

Do Water Test Kits Work?

Should You Invest in Professional Water Testing?

Professional water testing and water treatment services will help ensure that your drinking water is as clean and healthy as possible.

When Patients Demand Unnecessary Medical Tests

A neurologist and a bioethicist discuss how to approach patients asking for 'unnecessary' tests and procedures.

What’s Driving the Boom in At-Home Medical Tests?

Some say direct-to-consumer diagnostic kits, currently available for everything from food sensitivity to Lyme disease, offer the…

Buyer Beware When Purchasing Medical Test Strips

Test strips help millions monitor their health at home, but people should avoid buying strips that are pre-owned or not approved for sale in the United States.

Muddy pond? Get your water tested

Plus: How to keep a tree’s root zone away from your house.

Is Mass Spectrometry Ready to Challenge ELISA for Medical Laboratory Testing Applications?

There is a growing role for mass spectrometry in clinical laboratory testing. However, the pace of adoption will depend on further technology enhancements, in tandem with new clinical applications yet to emerge from research laboratories.

Should You Look at Your Medical Test Results Early?

Or will it just send you into a worry spiral while you wait to talk to the doc?