The Nurturing Machine: How AI could improve Cancer detection
AI is everywhere – you can’t escape it. These large language models have become the byword for theft, job-stealing, environmental pollution and of course, cheating on homework, with the overwhelming response largely negative. Its propensity for medical misinformation has worried the medical population, especially given the plethora of it out there in a post-COVID population less trusting of conventional medicine than before.
The new blood test? The use of menstrual blood as a diagnostic tool:
As stockings hang and festive lights twinkle, it’s easy to forget the most unexpected gift in women’s health: menstrual blood.
While blood tests, drawing serum or systemic blood, have been used for well over a century to gauge patient health and detect disease, the use of MB for the same purpose was never taken seriously until the last decade. Once dismissed as medical waste, it’s now stepping into the spotlight as a powerful diagnostic tool.
