Your Smartphone Can Now Diagnose HIV And Other Illness



Yes, smartphone nowadays is extremely helpful and definitely changing the course of history by making things so connected, information ready to use. A new stream of Health projects are growing nowadays, researchers are trying to use smartphone to diagnose the illness and to find out about the disease. Yes, you can now use your smartphone to find diseases like HIV just in a few seconds and saving lot of money.

Heard of smartphone that can diagnose HIV and other illness?

A small team of researchers at Columbia University was able to create a portable-device that can diagnose syphilis and HIV in just 15 minutes of time using just a finger prick of blood. This device is easy to use because it can be attached to your smartphone. Once the test is completed, the results will be displayed onto your smartphone.

It is definitely a Game Changer in terms of Home diagnostics and will help the people which are far away from proper Health care centers.

A single HIV test can cost up to $20,000 according to Dr. Urbina. This device can do the same in for little amount of $34 and on the top it can be used anytime and anywhere. Moreover, usage of this device can be learnt in just 30 minutes and that’s it.

Although the device is so handy and useful, it has some downside too like it can detect HIV at the end of the month in which the patient is infected. But don’t worry the researcher are working to make these kind of devices more efficient and will be rolled out in couple of years.



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