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A breathalyser may give doctors a new way to diagnose a range of respiratory conditions in as little as two minutes. Lung disease is one of the major causes of illness and death in the UK, with one in five people having a respiratory disease. These include asthma, lung cancer, pneumonia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease … Read more
A company in Singapore has developed a breathalyser test for Covid-19, which it claims can give a result in under a minute. Breathonix, a spin-off start-up firm from the National University of Singapore, also claims its test was 90 per cent accurate in a small trial of 180 people. It hopes to get the green-light … Read more
How a BREATHALYSER could tell if you have coronavirus: Israeli experts plan to make a breath test that diagnoses in ‘less than a minute after finding Covid patients exhale unique chemicals’ Israeli researchers have reportedly identified Covid-19 biomarkers in breath But UK doctors are streets ahead and are already testing a breathalyser Number 10 is … Read more
Former England striker Francis Jeffers gets 17-month road ban for refusing to take breathalyser when police caught him driving erratically in his Ford Fiesta Francis Jeffers was pulled over by police for driving erratically in his Ford Fiesta Told Liverpool police he’d drank ‘just two bottles of lager’ and refused breath test Former Everton striker charged with … Read more
DNANudge One of the new test kits, made by London-based DNANudge, will be launched next month. It analyses DNA in nose swabs but saves time as the results do not need to be sent to a laboratory The DnaNudge test does not require any medical expertise and can detect the virus from just a nostril … Read more