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now we are talking!! a very worthwhile progress in diagnostics...

wonder if we could contact her to see if she will tweak the tests to test the right things the right way??

http://www.wired.com/2014/02/elizabeth- ... d=18964974

Phlebotomy. Even the word sounds archaic—and that’s nothing compared to the slow, expensive, and inefficient reality of drawing blood and having it tested. As a college sophomore, Elizabeth Holmes envisioned a way to reinvent old-fashioned phlebotomy and, in the process, usher in an era of comprehensive superfast diagnosis and preventive medicine.

That was a decade ago. Holmes, now 30, dropped out of Stanford and founded a company called Theranos with her tuition money. Last fall it finally introduced its radical blood-testing service in a Walgreens pharmacy near company head­quarters in Palo Alto, California. (The plan is to roll out testing centers nation­wide.) Instead of vials of blood—one for every test needed—Theranos requires only a pinprick and a drop of blood. With that they can perform hundreds of tests, from standard cholesterol checks to sophisticated genetic analyses. The results are faster, more accurate, and far cheaper than conventional methods.
my favourite part
if people get alerted early they can take steps to avert getting sick. By testing, you can start to understand your body, understand yourself, change your diet, change your lifestyle, and begin to change your life."


Waa Hoo for a health system that encourages that - and is affordable
wonder how much the Vit d3 test will be??
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mmm better than $65
Vit D 25Oh is $20.35

http://www.theranos.com/test-menu?ref=our_solution
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