Healthcare made progress today on several different fronts. From smart software that detects a heart problem in ten seconds to a country that has virtually eliminated an eye disease: it shows that progress often happens in multiple places at once. The most striking news came from London, where researchers at Imperial College developed software that can detect heart disease via a standard ECG, something patients currently often have to wait months for an echocardiogram to diagnose. In a trial involving 67,000 patients, the tool identified up to 81% of heart failure cases and 90% of heart valve disease cases, figures...
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