Health tech company Vivoo has introduced an innovative at-home Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) test kit. The product, touted to deliver “gold standard accuracy results” within two minutes, aims to ...

The FDA is urging the public to throw away any pregnancy or ovulation tests manufactured by Universal Meditech, Inc.—a final step to remove the troubled company’s products from the market following ...

While clinical microbiology laboratories are pivotal in the identification and handling of infectious diseases, the microbiology lab environment is rapidly changing. Conventional testing methods are ...

Urinary tract infections are one of the most common ailments women encounter, with at least 40 to 60 percent of them getting one during their lifetime, according to the National Institutes of Health.

A new smartphone app and and lab kit can identify urinary tract infections (UTI) in an hour, with remarkable detail. The app, from UCSB researcher Michael Mahan's and Stanford’s Tom Soh’s teams, can ...

A kidney infection (known as pyelonephritis) usually happens when a urinary tract infection (UTI) spreads from your bladder up through the tubes that connect the bladder to your kidneys. Less commonly ...

TestCard has announced its noninvasive at-home urinary tract infection test kit to be launched in the UK in August 2020. With the accompanying mobile app, users can detect a UTI through immediate ...

Four tests for diagnosing UTIs that produce results in "under an hour" and can be carried out by a healthcare professional outside a conventional laboratory in a primary or community care setting show ...

Currently, in order to determine if someone has a urinary tract infection, a sample of their urine has to be sent off to a lab – it typically takes several days to get results. Now, however, ...

Medical laboratory testing is the heartbeat of medicine. It provides critical data for physicians to diagnose and treat disease, dating back thousands of years. Unfortunately, laboratory medicine as a ...