New urine test could diagnose eye disease

Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 15:00 in Health & Medicine

You might not think to look to a urine test to diagnose an eye disease. But a new study says it can link what is in a patient's urine to gene mutations that cause retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited, degenerative disease that results in severe vision impairment and often blindness.

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