Tuesday, August 07, 2012

Lunch Talk: (@TED) Medical diagnostics over the phone.

Parkinson’s disease affects 6.3 million people worldwide, causing weakness and tremors, but there's no objective way to detect it early on. Yet. Applied mathematician and TED Fellow Max Little is testing a simple, cheap tool that in trials is able to detect Parkinson's with 99 percent accuracy -- in a 30-second phone call.






tags: health, detection, lunchtalk

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