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Withings today announced the U-Scan, a miniaturized health lab that attaches to a toilet bowl and collects urine for home urine screening. Withings says that urine screening can provide an immediate ...

Few think of the toilet as a font of valuable information, outside what you might read while you're sitting on the throne. But a "smart toilet" is being developed that will help track your health by ...

Analyzing urine and stool to get a picture of health has traditionally been the work of dedicated diagnostic labs. People submit samples and technicians analyze them for a range of factors, from the ...

What comes out of us says a lot about our health. Before you flush, check for these warning signs in the toilet bowl.

We've heard of off-grid toilets that macerate, compost, incinerate and electro-wrap. We even stumbled on one that "super-composts" just a few weeks ago. We guess we should have expected one that ...

A groundbreaking study introduces new noninvasive screening tools that have the potential to greatly enhance patient comfort ...

Your toilet should be smarter. That's the thinking of two scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Joshua Coon and Ian Miller, who believe a “smart toilet,” can become a tool to closely ...

Chelsea Wald is a freelance reporter in The Hague, the Netherlands, and the author of Pipe Dreams: The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet. On Gotland, the largest island in Sweden, fresh ...