New scanner helps detect stroke-related brain damage with lower magnetic fields
Independent - 09-Dec-2024It can identify brain conditions like bleeds and changes in small blood vessels
Precision Medicine
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
Implantable sensors revolutionize real-time inflammation tracking
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DNA nanorobot detects viruses and blocks infections in 30 minutes
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIC) - 27-Nov-2024The device mimics a human hand, using flexible DNA strands with aptamers
ADx NeuroSciences partners with Alamar Biosciences to advance neurodegenerative assays
Biospace - 28-Oct-2024Together, they aim to provide pharmaceutical companies with precise tools for drug development
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Longevity Med Summit 2025
07-May-2025
Leading summit for the Longevity medical industry (Lisboa, Portugal)
Hurdle
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XPRIZE
Non-profit organization that designs and hosts public competitions intended to encourage technological development
2bPrecise
2bPrecise brings the power and promise of genomics and precision medicine directly into the clinical workflow
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
25-Jan-2021
Types of coronavirus tests, and how accurate are they?
Do you know the difference between sensitivity and specificity?
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
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
