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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 ...

His new physician, Dr B, gave the patient a urine dipstick test which came back positive for blood in the urine. A microscopic analysis of the sample showed 2 red blood cells per high powered field.

After identifying the changing molecules, researchers developed a test to measure the levels of five different biomarkers in urine. Some 105 patients with COPD then tested their urine every day ...

Some UTI test kits require the patient to urinate directly on the strip, preferably during the first urination of the day. Others allow patients to urinate into a specimen cup for a dipstick test.

Screening test results of urine (dipstick/urinalysis), blood (white blood cell count), and spinal fluid (white blood cell count) are promptly reported to the treating physician on the day of ...

A "digital dipstick" developed by researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden proved more accurate than currently available over-the-counter UTI tests, in a recently-published study.

Currently, doctors use a blood test to detect these clots. That test looks for a piece of a protein called D-dimer, which appears in the blood as a clot starts breaking apart.

Of patients with urine dipstick testing, 7,967 or 13% had an abnormal T1 protein dipstick test result, and 6.7% of those had follow-up albumin-to-creatinine or protein-creatinine ratio assessment ...