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March 07, 2010
Can comic books save lives? You betcha!
This is a fantastic melange of high-tech, low-tech, and comic book ink, the end result being a blood-based diagnostic test that can be produced for the princely sum of one penny. Not only will the device indicate whether or not the patient has HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, or a variety of other diseases, but the intensity of the color can be used to also diagnose the severity of the illness.
The implications for the Third World, where physicians are often few and far between, are profound. Of course, if the West truly cared about the health of the Third World's poorest citizens, the ban on DDT would be lifted, ensuring that malarial mosquitos would once again become rarer than hen's teeth, saving millions of lives.
Setting aside Rachel Carson's death toll (for now), this is fantastically innovative, a medical game changer.
Posted by Mike Lief at March 7, 2010 09:18 PM
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