A dipstick test alone may be the best initial screen to test for urinary tract infections (UTIs) in febrile infants, the authors of a study published online April 28 in Pediatrics conclude. Previous ...

March 15, 2010 — Routine dipstick urinalysis screening for chronic kidney disease (CKD) has little clinical value and is not cost-effective, according to the results of a study analyzing data on ...

Scientists are reporting development of the first "dipstick" test for instantly determining a person's blood type at a cost of just a few pennies. The test involves placing a drop of blood on a ...

A new simple, inexpensive three-in-one test to diagnose a terrible trio of parasitic diseases that wreak havoc in the developing world is passing preliminary tests, scientists reported here today.

DETROIT – Henry Ford Hospital researchers have found that the presence of excess protein in a common urine test is an effective prognostic marker of acute renal failure in patients with severe sepsis.

Over a million people each year, most of them in the "meningitis belt" in Africa, contract bacterial meningitis, a potentially deadly infection of tissues that line the brain and spinal cord. The ...

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A St. Louis chemist is one of many people who ask for decaf, and then wonder if it's really decaf. Jack Ladenson says he's getting more sensitive to caffeine. So he wants to test what a restaurant ...

Taking a page from home-pregnancy tests, scientists have designed a dipstick that can detect traces of cocaine or other drugs in a person's bodily fluids. Researchers from the University of Illinois ...