Sunday, May 22, 2022

Constant monitoring and analyzing urine at home for future health problem alerts

I think, this is an excellent idea! Being proactive, but not paranoid, about your health is so much better!

Nip it in the bud [ah toilet bowl 😄] as they say!

"... Israeli company Olive [not urine] Diagnostics has developed a toilet-mounted passive sensor, which monitors and analyzes urine and provides automatic early detection of diseases, often before we even suspect there is a problem. ...
... done optically through spectroscopy [a very sensitive and well understood powerful form of chemical analysis] ...
The company has initially validated the capabilities of the product in a trial conducted in Hadassah Hospital by the clinical trial company TechnoSTAT. In the trial, the device successfully detected proteins in 900 urine samples with a sensitivity of 98.7% (only 1.3% of patients were missed), and specifically 100% (no healthy patient was identified as ill). ..."

Analyzing urine for future health problem alerts - Globes Israeli company Olive Diagnostics has developed a toilet-mounted sensor to analyze urine and detect illnesses ranging from kidney stones to cancer.

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