Saturday, November 24, 2012

Fighting cancer with cell phones in Africa.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/23/tech/africa-health-innovation/index.html?hpt=te_r1


This article is about a group of Canadian doctors fighter Cancer in remote areas of Africa, medical workers go into areas such as tanzania to help Drs. screen cancer of the women there. Health care workers use smartphones to take pictures of the patients cervix and the doctors are able to look at the photos to tell if the women need addition care.
Karen Yeates (left) with colleagues Agnes Mtambo and Zahara Mahmoud, at the Pamoja Tunaweza Women's Centre in Moshi, Tanzania. Yeates is leading a project to improve cervical cancer screening in rural parts of the country.

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