diagnosis
Can your phone really know youre depressed?
Posted in Medicine on 19th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller
Smartphone data was more reliable in detecting depression than daily questions participants answered about how sad they were feeling on a scale of 1 to 10.
15-year-old schoolboy develops test for Alzheimer's disease
Posted in Science on 14th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller
A test which could not only pick up the early signs of Alzheimer's disease but potentially stops it spreading further.
Sniffing could provide autism test
Posted in Science on 4th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller
The way children sniff different aromas could form the basis of a test for autism, suggest researchers in Israel.
Pancreatic cancer blood test breakthrough
Posted in Science on 28th Jun, 2015
by Alex Muller
Scientists believe they are close to a blood test for pancreatic cancer; one of the hardest tumours to detect and treat.
DNA and Light Detect Cancer in the Brain, Head and Neck
Posted in Science on 26th Jun, 2015
by Alex Muller
Researchers have employed an imaging technique that uses safe near-infrared light to differentiate between healthy brain tissue and that which has become cancerous.