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| + | Cancer, cardiovascular disease and stroke are already dealt with in the article. It would be nice to get some mention of these: | ||
| + | *'''AIDS''' - Microfluidic tests have been developed; deploy these so that everyone knows their HIV status and that will take a good bite out of the rate of transmission. Education is probably the real answer, at least until a cure or vaccine is found. | ||
| + | *'''Malaria''' - One of the most interesting ways to control malaria, and certainly the cheapest, is with permaculture. A bat-house will control mosquitos<sup>[http://www.batcon.org/index.php/media-and-info/bats-archives.html?task=viewArticle&magArticleID=397]</sup>, planting plants rich in citronella oil around human habitations will repel mosquitos and growing the ''Polyporus umbellatus'' mushroom is effective against the parasite itself. | ||
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== Interesting links == | == Interesting links == | ||
* http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/health/research/13alzheimer.html?_r=1 | * http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/health/research/13alzheimer.html?_r=1 | ||
Revision as of 09:17, 18 June 2011
Contents
The biggest killers
Cancer, cardiovascular disease and stroke are already dealt with in the article. It would be nice to get some mention of these:
- AIDS - Microfluidic tests have been developed; deploy these so that everyone knows their HIV status and that will take a good bite out of the rate of transmission. Education is probably the real answer, at least until a cure or vaccine is found.
- Malaria - One of the most interesting ways to control malaria, and certainly the cheapest, is with permaculture. A bat-house will control mosquitos[1], planting plants rich in citronella oil around human habitations will repel mosquitos and growing the Polyporus umbellatus mushroom is effective against the parasite itself.
Interesting links
- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/health/research/13alzheimer.html?_r=1
- http://www.openclinical.org/
Proteomics
- http://www.ted.com/talks/david_agus_a_new_strategy_in_the_war_on_cancer.html
- http://www.ted.com/talks/danny_hillis_two_frontiers_of_cancer_treatment.html
Regenerative medicine
Imaging
Open Medical AI
- Communicates with patient in natural language
- Turns every patient into a data point - bridges gap between clinic and research
- Accesses medical journals (with Natural Language Processing)
- Interprets scans (with machine vision)
- Analyzes test results, like proteomics, genomics, blood tests
- Simulations of biochemistry, proteomics
- Analyzes small, wireless sensors
- Makes decisions (with Bayesian logic, expert systems, machine learning)
- Integrated with an Electronic Medical Record system
- All this done by cloud computing
Unfortunately, most of the development in this field is being done by private companies; there is not yet a dynamic open-source project. There was EgaDSS, but it seems to have stalled out. There is an X-Prize with a $10 million purse to stimulate medical A.I, but this will lead away from open-source.
