In this historic case, Wilson was awarded $4.7 million after jurors agreed that excessive testing caused strain and led to unnecessary scrutiny resulting in personal grief.

Previous inquiries of laboratory companies have focused on excessive testing and revenue-raising laboratory forms that restrict a doctor's ability to order tests, Mr. Brundage said.

The Dacia Logan appeared initially to fail the test, but a later investigation concluded that excessive testing had worn the car's tires to failure.

The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) is a film by Val Guest about an Earth thrown out of its orbit around the sun by excessive nuclear testing.

They complained about what they considered rigid curriculums, excessive standardized testing and tight budgets that allow for few elective classes and limited foreign language choices.

Approval of homeopathic drugs was simplified, considering there is no need for excessive testing for most of them.

Thanks to the abundance of health insurance, neither doctors nor patients are much deterred from spending money on excessive testing.

Besides causing stress, excessive testing can eat up funds or insurance coverage.

That would rein in excessive testing and high-tech treatment - a powerful brake on runaway costs.

In wringing waste from the system, companies also curbed consumers' choices of care, in part by halting unnecessary surgery, excessive testing and long stays in hospitals.