Twenty-four-hour urine collection, as a gold standard method of measuring salt intake, is costly and resource consuming, which limits its use in monitoring population salt reduction programs. Our ...
Getting a urine sample from a very young child may be as simple as gently rubbing their stomach with cold, wet gauze, an Australian study has shown. 'Quick-Wee,' a method developed by Dr Jonathan ...
Take a look behind the scenes of a recent report article published in BioTechniques entitled: ‘Methodology for the at-home collection of urine samples for prostate cancer detection’, as we ask lead ...
Researchers have shown that analyzing dried urine extracts with GC-MS/MS to assess levels of reproductive hormones in pre-and post-menopausal women provides similar results to radioimmunoassays using ...
Expert Rev of Obstet Gynecol. 2012;7(3):269-279. Catheter urine specimens (CSUs) may be appropriate in certain clinical settings, such as in the operating room or when patients are unable to void on ...
Urine analysis is a routine technique to identify and diagnose various health conditions. However, standard urine samples often fail to capture the full range of biomarkers present in the urine, as ...
As Dr Dawn Harper, GP and star of Embarrassing Bodies, stated at the Forte Medical Forum at the Royal Society of Medicine today: An initial light-hearted opening comment perhaps, but it quickly became ...
As the NHA refreshes its CCMA exam for 2026, candidates face a higher bar for clinical precision, especially in urine collection and cardiovascular monitoring. With the exam now emphasizing ...