Thursday, December 28, 2006

Blessed be Google

Forget just googling your name, doctors are using this powerful search engine to help diagnose diseases. A new study in the British Medical Journal demonstrated that googling worked to identify the disease 58% of the time from the Case Records of the New England Journal of Medicine.

We're just that much closer now to the Star Trek Tricorder that Bones used to diagnose patients.

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