{"id":156468,"date":"2023-01-28T01:30:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T07:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/starling-medicals-new-urine-testing-device-turns-your-toilet-into-a-health-tracker"},"modified":"2023-01-28T01:30:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T07:30:38","slug":"starling-medicals-new-urine-testing-device-turns-your-toilet-into-a-health-tracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/starling-medicals-new-urine-testing-device-turns-your-toilet-into-a-health-tracker","title":{"rendered":"Starling Medical\u2019s new urine-testing device turns your toilet into a health tracker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/starling-medicals-new-urine-testing-device-turns-your-toilet-into-a-health-tracker2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy some good toilet technology, then I think \u201curine\u201d for a treat. <a href=\"https:\/\/starlingmedical.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starling Medical<\/a> is poised to launch its at-home urine diagnostic patient-monitoring platform, dubbed \u201cStarStream,\u201d that doesn\u2019t rely on the traditional catching containers or dipsticks.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you\u2019re thinking this technology sounds familiar, you would be correct: My colleague Haje Jan Kamps wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/01\/04\/withings-u-scan\/\">Withings\u2019 U-Scan<\/a>, a urinalysis device, earlier this month when the health-focused consumer tech company debuted it at CES. U-Scan also sits in the toilet for at-home monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>However, Alex Arevalos, Starling\u2019s co-founder and CEO, told TechCrunch that this is an underserved market \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketsandmarkets.com\/Market-Reports\/urinalysis-systems-market-153479294.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">global urinalysis market<\/a> is forecasted to be valued at $4.9 billion by 2026, meaning there is plenty of room for Withings and a scrappy startup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you enjoy some good toilet technology, then I think \u201curine\u201d for a treat. Starling Medical is poised to launch its at-home urine diagnostic patient-monitoring platform, dubbed \u201cStarStream,\u201d that doesn\u2019t rely on the traditional catching containers or dipsticks. Now, if you\u2019re thinking this technology sounds familiar, you would be correct: My colleague Haje Jan Kamps [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}