Posted on 05/31/2016 10:08:02 AM PDT by servo1969
Ridhi Tariyal and Stephen Gire, an entrepreneur and a scientist, respectively, who met in an infectious disease lab at Harvard, were stunned by the vast number of women's health issues that go undetected. It seemed clear to them that there was a problem with the way that medical testing worked in women's health. The system is fundamentally reactive, waiting for an illness to be detected before it springs into action. But when a positive test result comes back after an annual check-up, it could be too late.
"We had to come up with something that would allow women to find out about these conditions sooner than every year," Tariyal says. "You can pick up a disease any time, and letting it sit there for a year until your next visit can have consequences downstream that you don't want. The system has to change."
Together, Tariyal and Gire have been devising a radical new system of testing that will allow women to proactively keep track of their health by studying blood samples in the privacy of their homes. "I was thinking about how to get a large enough volume of blood to do this," Tariyal says. "Until I realized that we actually bleed quite a bit every month."
That's when the lightbulb came on in Tariyal's head: A tampon could double as a tool for collecting women's blood. With the right technology, it could even test the blood for a range of biomarkers and send that information to a database that would allow a woman to track her reproductive health over time.
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Their website has positions open for Installation Specialists? wth?
Can they still hang on the White House Christmas Tree?
Like “smart guns” I suppose with finger print readers?
Do they have plans for a transgender version?
Not difficult. Crazy seems to run close to 100%.
The “iPon”?
I told my female co-worker about this — She literally laughed out loud in my face and said and I quote, “that could quite possibly be THE single most smartest thing ever in the history of mankind ever stuck in a woman’s vagina.”
No lie, it made me laugh too....
Smart Tampons?..
What like Kotext? i Pad Pad?
Where do I sign up?
Yeah, that’s what you want...to cram a microchip up ya.
“that could quite possibly be THE single most smartest thing ever in the history of mankind ever stuck in a woman’s vagina.”
So that’s what Prince Charles was up to when he said he wanted to be Camilla Parker Bowles’ tampon. He was only concerned about her health.
http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=44686
Mebbe they could add a function to notify the guy that he might as well make other plans.
Will there be a Deluxe Brand that vibrates and hums?
It beeps while it sweeps!
Just say NO!!!
It could test both the man and the woman.
Of course the man would need to be sponge worthy.
An amazing medical future is getting closer. With our technology, we will be able to detect problems sooner and stop the problem before it costs enormous sums of money.
So as funny as the reaction might be to this, it is a good thing to use technology to monitor our health.
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