Background Hydration status is one measure used to determine risk of heat illness, such as heat stroke. The most common assessment used is urine specific gravity. However, this test presents inherent ...

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Synthetic urine is engineered to replicate the essential physical and chemical properties of real urine rather than its ...

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 team of researchers at Purdue University have developed a new way to test for early signs of Parkinson’s disease, using a simple urine test. This new approach is described in a recent article ...

The study's testing accurately identified prostate cancer 91% of the time and accurately ruled out men without prostate cancer 84% of the time. A urine-based biomarker panel may be a promising, ...

Source: Getty Images Investigators analyzed exfoliated cells in urine specimens to identify 50 candidate RNAs for prostate cancer detection. Serum PSA testing is not specific to prostate cancer, and ...

One of the first signs of bladder cancer can be blood in the urine (hematuria). Investigators developed and analyzed the results of a streamlined and simplified DNA-based urine test to improve the ...