This article is about today, World AIDS Day, December 1 2009. Early detection and early treatment are crucial to battling HIV/AIDS, and we encourage everyone to test, either at a clinic or with a home HIV test.

This is an article about hair drug testing. People frequently have questions about this method of drug testing, which is one of the newer methods out there. We venture here to answer some questions about it!

The National Institutes on Drug Abuse are using stimulus money to determine the way to test for HIV best suited to reducing risky behaviors. One thing all can agree upon though is that taking a home HIV test is a good thing - encouraged for all between 13 and 64.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just released a cholesterol testing study which shows that high LDL cholesterol levels have decreased, fewer people had high LDL cholesterol in 2006 compared to 2000. The decrease in high LDL cholesterol levels can be attributed to lower fat diets and prescription statin drug use. While that may sound like good news from the study, there is some dangerous news as well – one in five people in the US still have high levels of LDL (bad...

This is an article about the Great American Smokeout, coming up tomorrow, November 19 2009. We wish everyone luck in quitting if they choose to do so today and hope they find our nicotine test an effective way to keep committed to quitting for good!

This entry features suggestions on talking to your kids about drug use and addiction and ways to incorporate a home drug test into these often difficult conversations.