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, ...

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.

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 ...

A new bacteriophage-based rapid test has the potential to identify the specific pathogen causing a urinary tract infection (UTI) at the point of care, enabling targeted use of antibiotics. The test ...

Researchers at Imperial College London say they have developed a novel lab-on-a-chip infection test that could provide less expensive and faster portable diagnostics. The chip, known as TriSilix, is a ...

In 2015, Jessica Price, 35, an Air Force veteran in Illinois, started experiencing urinary tract infection symptoms, including an unrelenting urge to urinate and bladder pain. But standard dipstick ...

A tiny new silicon-based lab-on-chip test could pave the way for cheap handheld infectious disease testing. The chip, developed at Imperial College London and known as TriSilix, is a 'micro laboratory ...