login
Become a member
Quick Registration
Full Registration Benefits -
Free Homepages for Doctors
Free Homepages for Hospitals
Free Homepages for Medical Conference
Free Homepages for NGO's
Personal Health Record Creation
Access to all Medical Slides
Access to all Jobs & Products Sale
Brit Hospital Unveils Hi-tech Unit That Offers Test Free Diagnosis
The first of its kind, it contains a bewildering array of equipment, including probes designed for missions to Mars.
The gadgets in the million-pound unit can detect illness without the need for painful and invasive tests. They combine information about the sight, smell and "feel" of a disease to produce a diagnosis.
The unit is described as the first step towards the tricorder scanners that Star Trek's Dr McCoy waved in front of patients' bodies to diagnose and treat illness in the crew of the Starship Enterprise.
"In the old days, it used to be said that a consultant could walk down a hospital ward and smell various diseases, as well as telling a patient's health by looking at them and feeling their pulse," the Daily Mail quoted Professor Mark Sims, the Leicester University space scientist who led the project alongside Tim Coats, a professor of emergency medicine, as saying.
"What we are doing is a high-tech version of that to help doctors diagnose the disease.
"We are replacing doctors' eyes with state-of-the-art imaging systems, replacing the nose with breath analysis, and the "feel of the pulse" with monitoring of blood flow using ultrasound technology and measurement of blood oxygen levels," Sims added.
Source-ANI
|
|
 Comment & Contribute
|
Medwonders Health Network
- Health News Index
- News Quick Links
 | News Central | | Health Watch | |
| Latest Health News | | Health In Focus | |
| News Category (500+) | | Breaking Health News | |
| Popular News | | Celebrating Life | |
| Health News and Press Release | | Medindia - Exclusive | |
| News Photo Gallery | | India Special | |
| News Video Gallery | | Lifestyle and Wellness | |
| News From Other Resources | |||
| News Categories: |
| » | Michelle Obama: Name of Olive Tree in Italy |
| » | Beyonce: Most Beautiful Women in the World |
| » | Robin Gibb Recovers from Coma Wakes Up to Cancer |
| » | Botox and Vitamin Jabs Maintain Simon Cowell’s Young Looks |
| » | Victoria Beckham Hoping to Launch Lifestyle Website |
| More Celebrity News | |
|
Hospital Related News |
||||||||
| » | Kochi Floating Hospital Godsend to Locals | » | Large City Hospitals: Breeding Grounds for MRSA | |||||
| » | Study Says Hospital Readmission Rates Linked to Availability of Care | » | Review: ICU Stays for Worst Asthma Drop 74 Percent | |||||
| » | CT Scans for ED Patients With Ground Level Fall or Simple Assault Not Necessary | » | Link Between Expensive Hospital Readmissions and Health-care Associated Infections | |||||
| » | Emergency Surgery Faces Scarcity of Hand Surgeons: Vanderbilt Study | » | Hospitals Putting Additional Focus on Infection Prevention After Suspension of Additional Funds by Medicare | |||||
| Read More >> | ||||||||
