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 ...

We have developed a dry-reagent dipstick test for simultaneous visual detection of two alleles in single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). The strip comprises two test zones and a control zone.

Jack Ladenson is one of thousands of Americans bothered by caffeine. The older he gets, he says, the more he switches to decaf coffee. The problem is he never trusts what he’s getting in coffee bars ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Very few patients with abnormal urine protein dipstick results have albuminuria measured as recommended by clinical guidelines. A real-world US study documents shortfalls in follow-up care after ...

Scientists have developed a quick and simple diagnosis method, similar to a dipstick pregnancy test, to fight a deadly sleeping sickness. The test to diagnose Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) just ...

The mosquito-borne viruses, Zika and dengue fever, plague developing countries around the world. Dengue can cause hemorrhagic fever, and Zika can lead to devastating congenital neurological defects.

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