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Urine: A liquid lens into your health
Urine: A liquid lens into your health
It's often stated that the cotton textile, mining or quarry industries are the oldest in the world. But one industry often gets forgotten in mention of our first professions as humans – the study of urine. Follow us to the origins of urine testing to the invention of modern urinalysis in the 1950s all the way to its future.
The future of urinalysis
The importance of urinalysis today
Urinalysis becomes the gold standard and reaches beyond glucose testing. The ubiquitous urine test detects pregnancy to ph, bacteria to bilirubin, ketones to kidney function. From early warning of diabetes and kidney failure to population health management, urine testing helps doctors fight the world’s most threatening diseases.
The beginning of modern urinalysis
The nascent days of urinalysis
Urine testing – how it all began
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