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New, inexpensive paper-based diabetes test ideal for developing countries

With epidemics of Type 2 diabetes looming in rural India, China and other areas of the world where poverty limits the availability of health care, scientists are reporting development of an inexpensive and ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Droplets for detecting tumoral DNA

It will perhaps be possible, in the near future, to detect cancer by a simple blood or urine test. In fact, biologists from CNRS, Inserm, Paris Descartes and Strasbourg universities have developed a technique ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Home urine test measures insulin production in diabetes

A simple home urine test has been developed which can measure if patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are producing their own insulin. The urine test, from Professor Andrew Hattersley's Exeter-based team at the Peninsula ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New urine test could diagnose acute kidney injury

The presence of certain markers in the urine might be a red flag for acute kidney injury (AKI), according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The results sugge ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Nov 11, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Autism finding could lead to simple urine test for the condition

Children with autism have a different chemical fingerprint in their urine than non-autistic children, according to new research published tomorrow in the print edition of the Journal of Proteome Research.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Toward a urine test for detecting colon cancer

Scientists are reporting an advance toward development of a urine test for detecting colon cancer, the third most common cancer in the United States. Such a test could eventually compliment or even reduce ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Urine test for kidney cancer a step closer to development

Studying patients with kidney cancer, a team of researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has identified a pair of proteins excreted in the urine that could lead to earlier and more ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New testing method hints at garlic's cancer-fighting potential

Researchers have designed a urine test that can simultaneously measure the extent of a potential carcinogenic process and a marker of garlic consumption in humans.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New test can help predict and diagnose preeclampsia

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed a simple urine test to rapidly predict and diagnose preeclampsia, a common, but serious hypertensive complication of pregnancy.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New 5-Day 'Morning-After' Pill Tested For U.S. Approval

(PhysOrg.com) -- Currently, women who seek emergency contraception within 72 hours of intercourse can receive copper intrauterine devices. Though the devices are very effective at preventing pregnancy, they ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 22, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (13) | comments 73 | with audio podcast report

Blood glucose self-monitoring: No benefit for non-insulin-dependent patients with type 2 diabetes

Contrary to the widely-held belief, there is no proof that non-insulin-dependent patients with type 2 diabetes benefit from glucose self-monitoring. Moreover, it remains unclear whether an additional benefit is displayed ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 07, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Urine test for pediatric obstructive sleep apnea possible

Researchers at the University of Chicago have discovered a technique that is able to determine whether a child has obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) or habitual snoring by screening their urine.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gene fusion discovery may lead to improved prostate cancer test

A newly discovered gene fusion is highly expressed in a subset of prostate cancers, according to a study by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College. The findings, reported in the April 1 issue of Cancer Research, may le ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Recent Drug Use Masks Cocaine Abusers' Cognitive Impairment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent cocaine use may hide some of the cognitive deficits commonly experienced by individuals addicted to cocaine, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Toward a urine test for diagnosing heart disease

Researchers in Australia are reporting an advance toward the first urine test for diagnosing coronary artery disease (CAD), the condition responsible for most of the 1.5 million heart attacks that occur in the United States ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0