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Scientists divided over device that 'remotely detects hepatitis C'
Developers say C-Fast – developed from bomb detection technology – will revolutionise diagnosis of other diseasesThe device the doctor held in his hand was not a contraption you expect to find in a rural hospital near the banks of the Nile.For a start, it was adapted from a bomb detector used by the Egyptian army. Second, it looked like the antenna for a car radio. Third, and most bizarrely, it could – the doctor claimed – remotely detect the presence of liver disease in patients sitting several feet away, within seconds.The antenna was a prototype for a device called C-Fast. If its Egyptian developers are to be be...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 25, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Patrick Kingsley Tags: Middle East and North Africa World news Egypt guardian.co.uk Medical research Society Features Hepatitis C Science Source Type: news

Scientists are not divided over device that 'remotely detects hepatitis C' | Suzi Gage
Without any peer-reviewed evidence or an adequate explanation of how it works, scientists are rightly sceptical about a device that can diagnose hepatitis C remotelyTo claim that "scientists are divided" over a new device that can "remotely detect hepatitis C" is akin to claiming that scientists are divided over homeopathy. Yet an article that was tagged as "science" on the Guardian website (though it was posted by Egypt correspondent Patrick Kingsley) did just this. The original headline (which has now been changed) was describing C-Fast: a device, supposedly based on bomb detection technology, that its developer claims w...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 27, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Suzi Gage Tags: Blogposts Infectious diseases Health guardian.co.uk Medical research Society Science and scepticism Hepatitis C Source Type: news

Hepatitis C detector promises hope and nothing more | Síle Lane
Wherever people are confronted with serious threats and a lack of solutions there is a potential market in false hopeA new device that supposedly detects diseases remotely is being promoted. According to an excited report earlier this week in the Guardian, about a demonstration of the device in an Egyptian hospital, its developers hope it will first be used to detect swine flu and hepatitis C, and later other diseases.What is being plugged here is hope and nothing more. The device looks like a car radio aerial attached to a handle. It is said to work by detecting a specific frequency emitted by infected liver cells. It is ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 28, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Blogposts Controversies Infectious diseases Health guardian.co.uk Medical research Society Science and scepticism Source Type: news

An Attempt to Estimate the Noises in Homeopathic Pathogenetic Trials by Employing the Jaccard Similarity Index and Noise Index
CONCLUSION: The Jaccard similarity index and the Noise index might be considered an additional approach for analyzing the symptoms of the placebo group as a comparator, resulting in better noise segregation in homeopathic pathogenetic trials.PMID:34959246 | DOI:10.1055/s-0041-1735983
Source: Homeopathy - December 27, 2021 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Kurian Poruthukaren Source Type: research

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