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Title: Relying On Apps For A Diagnosis Could Be Misleading, Even Deadly Post by: HCK on January 19, 2013, 03:01:26 am Relying On Apps For A Diagnosis Could Be Misleading, Even Deadly
There are a number of apps in the App Store that are supposed to help you identify if that funny looking mole is cancer or just a mole. While this is great in theory, turns out in practice you could be doing yourself more harm than good. You could, in fact, be putting your health at risk. A dermatologist from the University of Pittsburg tested four apps and found they were wrong at least 30% of the time. That would be okay, scary but okay, if it was a false positive, but the apps were wrong saying that the cancer was normal when it wasn’t. Continue reading → http://feeds.iphonehacks.com/~r/iphonehacks/~3/IbCEe2ssNMg/relying-on-apps-for-a-diagnosis-could-be-misleading-even-deadly.html |