Oncology & Cancer
New prostate cancer urine test shows how aggressive disease is
New prostate cancer urine test shows how aggressive disease is and could reduce invasive biopsies
Apr 27, 2021
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Medical research
Novel urine test developed to diagnose human kidney transplant rejection
Patients can spend up to six years waiting for a kidney transplant. Even when they do receive a transplant, up to 20 percent of patients will experience rejection. Transplant rejection occurs when a recipient's immune cells ...
Mar 5, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Study: New prostate cancer test could avoid unnecessary biopsies
A urine test based on University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center research could have avoided one third of unnecessary prostate cancer biopsies while failing to detect only a small number of cancers, according to a validation ...
Feb 11, 2021
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Immunology
Lipid biomarkers in urine can determine the type of asthma
In a new study, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have used a urine test to identify and verify a patient's type of asthma. The study, which has been published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical ...
Jan 13, 2021
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Neuroscience
Kidney problems as a young adult may affect thinking skills in midlife
If you have moderate-to-high risk of kidney failure as a young adult, you may be at risk for worse cognitive function in middle age, according to a study published in the September 2, 2020, online issue of Neurology, the ...
Sep 2, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Could a urine test help assess aspects of cystic fibrosis?
New research provides insights on the effects of cystic fibrosis in the kidneys. The findings, which appear in an upcoming issue of JASN, point to the potential for a urine test related to the disease.
Jul 23, 2020
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Neuroscience
Does using marijuana affect a person's risk of stroke?
The jury's still out on whether the use of marijuana may increase the risk of stroke. While several larger studies have found an increased risk, other studies have found no such increased risk. Adding to the debate is a new ...
Jun 3, 2020
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Group B strep and having a baby: what pregnant women need to know
Group B streptococcal (GBS) is a common bacteria that likes to live in the human gut and migrate down the rectum, vagina and sometimes to the urinary tract. Not everyone has GBS but even if you do, you might not know it; ...
May 29, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Urine test could reduce unnecessary prostate cancer biopsies
Unnecessary prostate cancer biopsies could be reduced by 60 per cent thanks to new research from the University of East Anglia.
Mar 10, 2020
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Medical research
The bizarre case of a woman who pees alcohol
Clinicians encountered a case of previously unrecognized auto-brewery syndrome in which a substantial amount of alcohol was produced by yeast fermenting sugar in a patient's urinary system, even though the patient had not ...
Feb 25, 2020
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