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Smartwatches know you're getting a cold days before you feel ill
Once we had palm-reading, now we have smartwatches. Wearable tech can now detect when you’re about to fall ill, simply by tracking your vital signs.
Michael Snyder at Stanford University in California experienced this first-hand last year. For over a year he had been wearing seven sensors to test their reliability, when suddenly they began to show abnormal readings. Even though he felt fine, the sensors showed that his heart was beating faster than normal, his skin temperature had risen, and the level of oxygen in his blood had dropped.
“That’s what first alerted me that something wasn’t quite right,” says Snyder. He wondered whether he might have caught Lyme disease from a tick during a recent trip to rural Massachusetts.
A mild fever soon followed, and Snyder asked a doctor for the antibiotic doxycycline, which can be used to treat Lyme disease. His symptoms cleared within a day. Subsequent tests confirmed his self-diagnosis.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @12:15PM (1 child)
Yes.
But in the developing world you just go and buy them instead of asking a doctor.
(Score: 2) by legont on Monday November 12 2018, @03:35PM
In most reasonable developing countries (as well as developed till recent madness) one goes to a pharmacists who reliably prescribes and sells medication in 99% of the cases referring the last 1% to a doctor. Our modern doctors are a scam and a device should easily do better.
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