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Cystic fibrosis diagnosis. Here is a link to a paper describing the use of β-adrenergic sweat secretion as a diagnostic test for cystic fibrosis. Anti-cancer therapy and its effectiveness. This report seeks to determine the levels of the anti-cancer drug sunitinib and its active metabolite N-desethylsunitinib in sweat. I'll add others later. Added on 6 ...

I can't provide any real technical details, but I recently watched a documentary in which a team demonstrated a new type of blood sugar sensor that could be simply swabbed against sweat. They were trialling it as a non-invasive option that paramedics could carry, for use on unconscious patients as a means of checking for signs of diabetic shock. They ...