How an Israeli start-up turned the cellphone into a testing lab for kidney disease
February 22, 2019 at 10:02 AM EST
An Israeli digital health start-up called Healthy.io has developed an FDA-cleared at-home smartphone urinalysis test to help people test their kidneys for proteins, a sign of damage to the organ. Thirty million Americans have chronic kidney disease; that's 1 in 9 adults, according to the National Kidney Foundation.
