To check your blood sugar levels at home, you can use a glucose meter or a continuous glucose monitor. Here's what you should know about both devices.

By the time you’re dehydrated enough to consider drinking urine, the urine will be so concentrated that it’s just too salty.

Blood glucose is not a fixed number. Understanding when to test could help make every reading more relevant and more useful in your daily life. For someone living with diabetes, blood sugar can change ...

Prostate cancer remains one of the most common cancers among men, yet diagnosing it accurately has long been a challenge. The widely used PSA blood test often leads to confusion, as it can flag benign ...

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Health Services said Tuesday it has distributed more than 131,000 xylazine test strips to community organizations to combat the state’s drug overdose ...

American researchers have developed a urine test showing promise in prostate cancer detection, potentially reducing the need for painful biopsies. The test identifies three biomarkers—TTC3, H4C5, and ...

An important aspect of managing diabetes in dogs and cats is regularly checking blood sugar (glucose) to ensure levels are neither too high nor too low. In the past, we had to rely on using urine ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital and four other institutions have devised a novel method to test for prostate cancer using biomarkers ...

Abstract: Urine test paper is often used to roughly judge the course of certain diseases, such as diabetes. Excessive glucose in the urine will react with the chemicals in the test strip, and then ...

A urine test is a simple yet informative diagnostic tool that can reveal a wide range of potential health issues, from urinary tract infections to early signs of chronic diseases like diabetes or ...

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The pH scale is used to measure the acidity of a fluid. The pH scale ranges from 0 to 14. A pH of 7 is neutral, whereas a pH result below 7 is acidic and above 7 is alkaline. Urine has the widest ...