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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

Neko Health secures $260m to revolutionize preventive care

Neko Health secures $260m to revolutionize preventive care

Longevity Technology - 23-Jan-2025

Full-body scans drive early detection as Neko expands globally

A new blood test, TriOx, analyzes DNA to detect six types of cancer early

A new blood test, TriOx, analyzes DNA to detect six types of cancer early

Independent - 08-Jan-2025

It offers a faster, less invasive way to improve early diagnosis

PSMA-PET imaging improves prostate cancer metastases detection

PSMA-PET imaging improves prostate cancer metastases detection

Inside Precision Medicine - 06-Jan-2025

The new method uses radiotracers to make cancer cells visible

Proton Intelligence raises funds to develop potassium monitoring for kidney disease

Proton Intelligence raises funds to develop potassium monitoring for kidney disease

Longevity Technology - 30-Dec-2024

Clinical trials have begun on patients with severe kidney disease

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Precision Medicine Resources

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Viome

Gut Microbiome Testing, Precision Health and supplements company

Longevity Med Summit 2025

07-May-2025

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

Our Future Health

Our Future Health is the UK’s largest ever health research programme

Hurdle

Hurdle’s all-in-one solution provides everything your organisation needs to implement scalable remote testing programmes

EnLiSense

Sensor device company based in Texas

XPRIZE

Non-profit organization that designs and hosts public competitions intended to encourage technological development

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Precision Medicine Blog Posts

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

Warts precision medicine got to do with it?
04-Aug-2015

Warts precision medicine got to do with it?

Skin growth as an example of where early diagnosis could save money, and put patients' minds at rest

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