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 ...

At-home drug tests are urine or saliva tests that can identify if illegal or prescriptions drugs are present in your body. These tests are an alternative to going in person to a laboratory or other ...

An alcohol urine test involves a lab testing a person’s urine sample for the presence of alcohol. Three types of this test exist. One measures unmetabolized alcohol, while the others measure two of ...

Fifty fragments of proteins, termed peptides, have been identified in the urine of liver fibrosis patients in a new study that could pave the way for a potential diagnostic urine test for the ...

PredicineCARE is a urine-based NGS assay under FDA review for bladder cancer companion diagnostics, detecting genetic alterations in cancer-related genes. The test uses a capture-based method to ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital and four other institutions have devised a novel method to test for prostate cancer using biomarkers ...

A recent study from researchers at Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan has demonstrated that a simple ...

Early detection of prostate cancer remains a major clinical challenge due to the lack of reliable biomarkers, despite the disease being highly treatable when caught in its early stages. Now, ...

A new urine test holds potential for making cervical cancer screening easier and less invasive than traditional smear tests. Researchers from Waseda University and Kanazawa Medical University in Japan ...