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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

UK biobank scans 100,000 volunteers for disease research

UK biobank scans 100,000 volunteers for disease research

Sky News - 15-Jul-2025

The project supports better early detection and new treatments worldwide

Connectome wants brain scans to be the new mental health check-up

Connectome wants brain scans to be the new mental health check-up

Tech.eu - 23-Jun-2025

Non-invasive brain scans may soon help track focus, memory, and cognitive health over time

Scotland unveils groundbreaking brain imaging to tackle deadly tumours

Scotland unveils groundbreaking brain imaging to tackle deadly tumours

Independent - 19-Jun-2025

New MRI-based tech may better detect tumour changes without contrast dye in brain cancer patients

Microscopic patch offers needle-free biopsy breakthrough

Microscopic patch offers needle-free biopsy breakthrough

Interesting Engineering - 17-Jun-2025

New patch collects molecular data without cutting tissue, enabling faster, safer disease diagnosis

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Precision Medicine Resources

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Vitall

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

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

Longevity Med Summit 2025

07-May-2025

Leading summit for the Longevity medical industry (Lisboa, Portugal)

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Precision Medicine Blog Posts

Neko Health body scan experience
09-May-2025

Neko Health body scan experience

I visited Neko Health’s new London clinic – what was it like?

Have you had coronavirus? UK COVID-19 antibody tests from £65
04-Feb-2021

Have you had coronavirus? UK COVID-19 antibody tests from £65

Comparison of UK mail and clinic tests, plus a review of the Medichecks test

Types of coronavirus tests, and how accurate are they?
25-Jan-2021

Types of coronavirus tests, and how accurate are they?

Do you know the difference between sensitivity and specificity?

Review of longevity technology in Passengers (movie)
03-Jan-2017

Review of longevity technology in Passengers (movie)

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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