A negative urinalysis for microscopic hematuria is reported in up to 18% of cases of urolithiasis. Argyropoulos and colleagues have carried out a single-center, retrospective study to investigate ...

Scientists have developed a urine diagnostic to detect the parasitic worms that cause river blindness, also called onchocerciasis, a tropical disease that afflicts 18 to 120 million people worldwide.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Of evaluated patients with urine dipstick testing, 13% had an abnormal T1 protein test result. The cumulative ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When a dipstick test suggests there's blood in the urine, the next step should be to examine a sample of the urine under a microscope to make sure the dipstick result is ...

Point-of-care urine dipstick demonstrated higher sensitivity (90.2%) and specificity (92.6%) than laboratory urinalysis for diagnosing urinary tract infection (UTI) in febrile infants aged 2-6 months.

As the saying goes, "the sooner the better," and such is the case for the detection of kidney and urological diseases. Early detection is key, and may be achieved through the use of a dipstick urine ...

Urine dipstick alone (without urine microscopy) is an adequate screening test for febrile infants aged 1–90 days with suspected UTI, according to a recent study from researchers in Salt Lake City, ...

Tsukuba, Japan – As the saying goes, “the sooner the better,” and such is the case for the detection of kidney and urological diseases. Early detection is key, and may be achieved through the use of a ...

Urinalysis tests are simple, cost-effective ways to get results for any number of biomarkers, from measuring glucose to determining whether an individual has an infection. However, the tests can ...

Scientists at Scripps Research have developed a urine diagnostic to detect the parasitic worms that cause river blindness, also called onchocerciasis, a tropical disease that afflicts 18 to 120 ...