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Early diagnosis can improve your chances of survival massively, and is also a big opportunity to new technology to help as shown in the Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE entries. When visiting a GP it can be hard (maybe impossible) for them to determine whether you have a bacterial or a viral infection. Some ailments (e.g. pneumonia, diarrhoea) can be caused by both.

Hopefully one day (and not some distant time in the future) you will be able to be quickly scanned for a wide variety of diseases and infections - many more than could realistically be considered by a doctor considering general symptoms such as fever, nausea and pain - of course they have to assume its the most common ailments first so could be months before all the other possible causes are tested for and discounted.

Of course, even when the tests are available, it's still a matter of cost. However with new technologies prices could be slashed, permitting regular, wide sweeping tests. Imagine if every time you visited a GP, while you were waiting for your appointment, a point-of-care diagnostic instrument was able to run a hundred tests from a small blood sample - checking whether there were any serious ailments that needed to be dealt with. Catching a disease early inevitably makes the treatment significantly cheaper and, more importantly, more successful for the patient.

Precision Medicine News

NHS home test finds hidden hepatitis c cases across england

NHS home test finds hidden hepatitis c cases across england

Independent - 20-Aug-2025

The free, confidential service helps people access treatment quickly

New imaging device enhances prostate cancer surgery at royal surrey

New imaging device enhances prostate cancer surgery at royal surrey

BBC - 15-Aug-2025

Real-time tissue scanning may cut radiotherapy need and preserve quality of life

Can AI in colonoscopies make doctors less sharp?

Can AI in colonoscopies make doctors less sharp?

Medical Xpress - 12-Aug-2025

Continuous AI assistance linked to lower adenoma detection without AI support

Whole-body MRI scans help predict myeloma relapse and improve patient monitoring

Whole-body MRI scans help predict myeloma relapse and improve patient monitoring

The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) - 04-Aug-2025

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Vitall

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Measure and track your health using at home finger-prick blood test kits

Viome

Gut Microbiome Testing, Precision Health and supplements company

Whole-Body MRI Scans & the Power of Preventative Health - Andrew Lacy

The Beyond Tomorrow Podcast- Andrew Lacy explores the role of whole-body MRI scans

The Age of Diagnosis

Amazon

How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker, written by Suzanne O'Sullivan

Prenuvo

Whole-body proactive MRI health scan

Neko Health

A healthcare company

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Review of longevity technology in Passengers (movie)
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Has a clever Autodoc chamber to diagnosis treat disease - would be surprising if it couldn't reverse ageing too by then

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