In West and Central Africa, a bite from the tsetse fly could send a person in to a fatal coma. Doctors have now developed a fast and efficient way to diagnose this condition using a method that’s ...

Technology that helps to quickly extract and analyze genetic material could be used for cheap, accurate and mobile COVID-19 testing, including at airports and remote testing centres. 'Dipstick' ...

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, ...

Urinalysis is one of the most frequently ordered diagnostic tests, critical for identifying conditions like urinary tract infections (UTIs), kidney disease, and diabetes. However, traditional dipstick ...

A dipstick test alone may be the best initial screen to test for urinary tract infections (UTIs) in febrile infants, the authors of a study published online April 28 in Pediatrics conclude. Previous ...

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 ...

Only 1 in 15 urine dipstick tests showing proteinuria in the primary care setting are followed up with albuminuria quantification testing, according to investigators. These findings expose a broad gap ...

Lateral flow assays have been a popular point-of-care testing platform for decades. Researchers are now turning these simple tests into complex biomedical assays which can be used in the home, ...

MYSURU: While testing more people is emerging as an acceptable formula in tackling the Covid-19 pandemic, Mysuru-based CSIR Central Food Technological Research Institute along with its CSIR lab, ...

A catheter-associated UTI is a symptomatic infection of the bladder or kidneys in a person with a urinary catheter. Dipstick testing is not an effective method for detecting UTIs in adults with ...