Like the Olympics, the N.F.L. lacks tests for some performance-enhancing substances, like human growth hormone.
Third, knowledge of a possible immune deficiency in the previously healthy child was lacking, testing for the patient's immune status was delayed.
He also criticised the lack testing for bee harm over the last 20 years of neonic use: "I don't think it is acceptable.
We sometimes lack test kits, Nevirapine for mothers and that for babies.
Baseball did not ban the use of human growth hormone until 2005 and, like the other major professional team sports, still lacks a test for the substance.
One common complaint about psychiatry is its subjective nature: it lacks definitive tests for many diseases.
The later study performed RPR under field conditions, and lacked confirmatory tests for syphilis and likely to have overestimated prevalence of syphilis.
One weakness to the present study is the lack of comparison with another antiretroviral compound or lack of testing for combinations.
Indeed, the lack of testing for new drivers is good for older drivers, or those whose jobs were being evaluated, like Rubens Barrichello, who might have lost his seat to Bruno Senna, a driver from the GP2 feeder series.
Ian Thorpe of Australia made that plaintive complaint last week at the world swimming championships, questioning a lack of testing for the banned drug EPO, or erythropoietin, which increases oxygen-carrying capacity.
Some players, team trainers and executives said they found it interesting that no such discussion was taking place about the lack of testing for amphetamines, which they said players routinely used to make themselves more alert.
