UK biobank scans 100,000 volunteers for disease research
Sky News - 15-Jul-2025The project supports better early detection and new treatments worldwide
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.
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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
How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker, written by Suzanne O'Sullivan
Longevity Med Summit 2025
07-May-2025
Leading summit for the Longevity medical industry (Lisboa, Portugal)
09-May-2025
Neko Health body scan experience
I visited Neko Health’s new London clinic – what was it like?
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
