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Approach to blood pressure drugs rethink is urged in the UK

Posted in Medicine on 25th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller

More lives could be saved if doctors considered giving blood pressure drugs to all patients at high risk of heart disease, even if their blood pressures are normal, a study suggests.

A Quirk of Physics Could Give Us a Fast, Cheap Way To Diagnose Diseases

Posted in Medicine on 13th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller

A test that exploits a quirk of physics could make blood tests for certain diseases faster, cheaper, and easily performed.

EyeGuide Focus is claimed to detect concussions in 10 seconds

Posted in Medicine on 3rd Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller

Although concussions can have very serious consequences, they're also difficult to diagnose without the proper equipment.

Microwave and ultrasound technology might be able to "hear" tumors growing

Posted in Medicine on 17th Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller

The technique involves the clever interplay of microwaves and ultrasound to develop a detector like the Star Trek tricorder.

Exponential Medicine: AI Better Than Your Doctor at Finding Cancer

Posted in Software on 13th Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller

'If you detect cancer early, your probability of survival is 10 times higher.'