Russian Doctors Invent "Unique" Diagnostic System (What's the chance this is more then snakeoil?)

Red Orbit ^ | 5 November 2005

[jb6]

Text of report by Russia TV on 5 November

A new method of medical diagnosis has come into service with Maritime Territory doctors. Using unique equipment developed at the Academy of Sciences, they can instantly pinpoint human diseases on the basis of brain impulses. The invention is already being used successfully in a Maritime Territory town. Here is a report from Andrey Kormodanov.

[Kormodanov] Sensors on the fingers and a probe in the ear region - and in five minutes a judgment can be made on the state of the whole body. Pupils at a primary school in the town of Bolshoy Kamen are undergoing their latest medical tests using the unique equipment.

After a certain time the computer produces the result of the examination with an indication of all the syndromes. The print-out is placed in the children's school record, and then at a parents' meeting the doctors announce what irregularities require attention.

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Depending on the diagnosis, special impulses are sent back into the brain that are capable of acting on the problem area, and the body copes with the illness by itself.

This programme-cum-hardware package has been developed by scientists at the Far Eastern branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. They concluded that the state of a person's organs can be judged by emissions from receptors in the brain. The equipment deciphers these waves and displays them on a computer screen in the form of dots like this or a graph.

[Gennadiy Shabanov, assistant at the Laboratory of Ecological Neurocybernetics of the Far Eastern branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences - captioned] In the kidney region, particularly in the alpha adrenoreceptor system, we can see very high tonicity here. It's this group of cells that shows it. And this is linked to the hypertension that can be observed in this patient.

[Kormodanov] Scientists are calling it a revolution in medicine. The equipment can detect illness even before there are changes in the organs or even in the composition of the blood. In Bolshoy Kamen children have been examined like this for several years now. Local doctors say that in that time they have managed to prevent a substantial number of chronic diseases.

[Unidentified woman, presumably doctor] Last year we had more than 700 children registered with specialist medical departments, while this year, according to our annual figures, we have 600 children registered with chronic illnesses.

[Kormodanov] Scientists are now working to develop a compact version of the equipment so that every community doctor can take it on calls to patients.

[BipolarBob]

The same institute that came up with phrenology?

[GSlob]

Some centuries ago the patient's urine was used to much the same effect as universal diagnostics. Some 30 yrs ago the same topic was turned into a visual gag in a Georgian movie titled "Ne Goryui' [=do not be sad]. In it there was a rural doctor whose fees from the peasants in old Georgia were mostly in the form of agricultural produce. So, the doctor character used to get the wind of what the ailment was, and maintained his prestige as follows: when one peasant whose wife had fallen from the stairs brought him a bottle of oil as a fee for the consultation, he immediately looked through the bottle at the light and [without letting the peasant to put a word edgewise]:
"This is your wife's urine! She fell from eight steps!"
"-B-b-but, d-d-doctor, she fell from nine steps!"
"I knew it! You must have spilled the ninth step!"

[JohnCliftn]

I am very skeptical. Consider

...special impulses are sent back into the brain that are capable of acting on the problem area, and the body copes with the illness by itself.

Biofeedback.

Biofeedback is useful for calming anxieties, stress reduction, and things like that, but it is not the cure for all ailments.

[PAR35]

Sensors on the fingers and a probe in the ear region

Obviously a bad translation here. They are obviously using technology obtained from a UFO, and everyone knows from the stories told by alien abductees that the aliens don't put the probe in the ear.

[festus]

Obviously a bad translation here. They are obviously using technology obtained from a UFO, and everyone knows from the stories told by alien abductees that the aliens don't put the probe in the ear.

Yes but from what I've learned from "unnamed sources" close to the captured alien vessels, the probe actually does work in the ear. It turns out the only reason the aliens keep sticking it up folks a$$ is that, well, the aliens are a bit light in the loafers if ya know what I mean.