Sweat can be as helpful as blood in checking on health. Doctors already use it for drug tests and insights on diseases like cystic fibrosis. But sweat has its limits – largely because there’s only so ...

A new wireless and wearable device developed by Northwestern Medicine scientists, in collaboration with Northwestern University spinout company, Epicore Biosystems, measures specific biomarkers in a ...

Scientists say perspiration might hold the key to detecting everything from diabetes to Parkinson’s disease without a single needle stick. Research reveals how sweat analysis is rapidly evolving from ...

What if we could monitor patients in the future without taking blood samples every time? TU/e researcher Sophie Adelaars investigated a promising alternative: measuring biomarkers in sweat and saliva.

Antipsychotic drugs treat incredibly vulnerable patients. Maintaining a treatment regimen is difficult for many patients, but not taking the medication is associated with a higher risk of poor health ...

Your sweaty gym shirt might seem like nothing more than evidence of a good workout, but cutting-edge technology is transforming that damp fabric into a sophisticated medical laboratory that can ...

A new study from the University of Surrey aimed at tuberculosis detected antibiotics in the bloodstream using fingerprint sweat with almost the same accuracy as a blood test. Tuberculosis is among the ...

Sweat from a fingertip can be used to test whether tuberculosis (TB) patients are taking their medication properly. Until now, this could only be done by pricking blood. Pulmonologist Onno Akkerman ...