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One Urine Test, 34 Drugs: Inside a Tox Lab Upgrade
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Cleveland Clinic chemists consolidated two separate drug-screening assays into a single 34-analyte LC-MS/MS urine panel, published in the Journal of Chromatography B. By separating compounds and identifying each by precise mass transitions, the method avoids the cross-reactivity that produces false positives in antibody-based screens. The validated panel processes up to 1,000 patient specimens a…