Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD Pyuria is a term that describes the presence of pus, which is mostly made up of white blood cells, in urine. Urine typically contains very few or no white blood ...

Cancer research reveals blood tests can detect tumor-derived mutations years before diagnosis. Johns Hopkins scientists ...

Early cancer detection often leads to less aggressive treatments, reduced recovery times and higher survival rates.

Most people get their kidneys checked by going to a doctor or a medical lab. But now, thanks to new technology, you can also check your kidney health from home. This is especially helpful for people ...

The National Nanotechnology Centre (Nanotec) has launched an innovative, ready-to-use rapid test kit for kidney function in a ...

Blood and urine tests have been found to detect the amount of ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) a person eats, according to new research. Using machine learning, scientists at the National Institutes of ...

Loftfield and her colleagues found they were able to distinguish between the two diets by looking at the metabolites in the participants’ urine and blood samples. Loftfield wants to test the ...

In the 2000s, biotech company Theranos promised to revolutionise blood testing ... you’ve eaten can influence urine composition, potentially affecting test results. Saliva can also be used ...

Women diagnosed with GD are asked to check their ketone levels by testing their urine before breakfast; however, since ketosis can develop at any time throughout the day, utilising blood ketone ...

Now, researchers have identified a new set of urine-based biomarkers that ... the current standard blood-based marker. A PSA test is a simple blood test that checks the level of a protein called ...

The researchers then used blood, prostate tissue and urine samples from a second group of patients to assess the test’s accuracy. Mikael Benson of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, who led the ...

In the cross-sectional cohort, the semi-quantitative ACR had a sensitivity of 78.1% and a specificity of 93.3% at a 30 mg/g creatinine cutoff, with over 90% overall agreement with quantitative ACR ...