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 ...

Forensic chemist Jan Halámek is proving that our own perspiration not only gives away how drunk we are—but if we are high, too. Through new research, published in December's edition of ACS Sensors, ...

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 ...

Analysis of finger sweat detected isoniazid in adults with tuberculosis (TB) for ≤ 6 hours after administration, based on data from a new pilot study. Risk factors for TB treatment failure include ...

A Northwestern Engineering-led research team has developed a novel skin-mounted sticker that absorbs sweat and then changes color to provide an accurate, easy-to-read diagnosis of cystic fibrosis ...

Forensic chemist Jan Halámek is proving that our own perspiration not only gives away how drunk we are – but if we are high, too. Through new research, published in December's edition of ACS Sensors, ...

Scientists can now detect antipsychotic drugs in individuals from their fingertip sweat. Researchers at the University of Surrey (UK) have developed a fast, non-invasive test for monitoring ...

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 ...

For Bangkok market sellers, the armpit sweat soaking their T-shirts during the humid monsoon season may contain subtle signs of coronavirus infection, local scientists have said. Thai researchers are ...