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.

August 4, 2011 — An inexpensive urine dipstick test can help screen for asymptomatic kidney disease, according to the results of a community-based, prospective cohort study reported online July 29 in ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Automated leukocyte and bacterial counts performed well in the diagnosis of urinary tract infection in pediatric ...

DETROIT – Henry Ford Hospital researchers have found that the presence of excess protein in a common urine test is an effective prognostic marker of acute renal failure in patients with severe sepsis.

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.

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 ...

The Dip.io kit works in tandem with existing smartphone cameras and a dedicated app. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Class II approval to a first-of-its-kind, home-based urinalysis ...