Toward An 'Electronic Nose' To Sniff Out Kidney Disease In Exhaled Breath
Friday, June 19, 2009 - 09:14
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have identified the key substances in exhaled breath associated with healthy and diseased kidneys — raising expectations, they say, for development of long-sought diagnostic and screening tests that literally sniff out chronic renal failure (CRF) in its earliest and most treatable stages.
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