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 ...

Following last year's smart toilet which debuted at CES 2023, Vivoo is at it again for CES 2024 with another urine analysis product. The company has unveiled an at-home digital urinary tract infection ...

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 ...

A new smartphone-based test called smaRT-LAMP pairs an established infectious disease diagnosis method with an easy-to-use app. Image credit: Peter Allen and Brian Long, University of California, ...

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 ...

Urinary tract infections are a common health issue and account for nearly 10 million doctor visits a year in the U.K. Through a new agreement with Walgreens Boots Alliance, a smartphone-based UTI ...

Millions of laboratory urine tests are carried out each year for pregnant women, patients at risk of kidney failure, and people who think they may have urinary tract infections. The tests are ...

One of the primary ways physicians diagnose urinary tract infections is with a test that detects bacteria in urine. A new enhanced test detects significantly more bacteria than the standard test. One ...

Point-of-care urine dipstick demonstrated higher sensitivity (90.2%) and specificity (92.6%) than laboratory urinalysis for diagnosing urinary tract infection (UTI) in febrile infants aged 2-6 months.

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 ...

Although urinary tract infections (UTIs) are typically minor—albeit painful—health issues for most people, they can pose ...