RRJ# 5

1/ Reference:

Blackman, C. (2009, July 24 ). New invention could revolutionize how diseases are diagnosed. Physorg. Retrieved on Oct. 24, 2009, from
http://www.physorg.com/news167661319.html.


3/ Summary:

The article discusses a new diagnostic tool that could diagnose people's diseases in a simple way while they are at home. The article begins to discuss the two students who invented this tool, Gaster and Hall from Stanford University. This small tool diagnoses diseases from Flu to Human Immunodeficiency Virus by identifying the proteins of diseases and without doctors. The reason for inventing this tool is to use it in airports to reduce the spread of some diseases and for developing countries that usually do not have enapght doctors or even in poor countries. Gaster and Hall won and received many prizes in ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York. After that, the article discusses how Gaster and Hall planned to invent this tool and how much time they spent on it. Then, the article discusses how this tool works and what the advantages of it.



4/ Reaction:

I find the article discusses a perfect tool that help people in many ways. For example, according to the article this tool digneoses many diseases beginning with Flu and including Human Immunodeficiency Virus. The intresting infromation about this tool that is people can use it where ever they are and it does not require laboraries or doctors. Now, in my country swine Flu (H1F1) is a serious disease ; many people, if they feel that they have the Flu, immediately they go to hospitals to check their health. It is true, but sometimes it is dengoris to go to hospitals because there are possible ways to receive this disease from other patients. On the other hand, if you have this tool in your home you can check your health in any time you want and in a safe place. In addition, it is a useful tool in airports to reduce the spread of pandemics. To look at some poor countries which have a shortage of doctors and in the medical instruments or labotaries, we will find this tool could solve these problems in simple ways. Moreover, it will help people in developing countries which have crowded hospitals. Furthermore, the simple way of using this tool makes it a unique tool in the medical field. Also, this tool is not used just for dignosing diseases, but it also could used as a positive or negative pregnancy test. At the end, I find this tool could help and solve many problems in our countries, so we should encourage doctors in different countries to develop and support this tool to make it as a useful tool in the medical field.