The largest ever UK trial of a urine test used across the NHS to spot when patients skip their medication has shown it may improve adherence to treatment.Led by researchers at The University of Manchester and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT), the study investigated the efficacy of a urine test which detects the presence or absenc...
  • michaelalf@lemmy.world
    6·
    4 days ago

    What the hell is going on with that AI slop blood pressure machine? FFS how hard is it to find a stock image of a blood pressure machine‽

  • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
    91·
    4 days ago

    OK, so the headline seems a little bit misleading.

    It seems that the boost in adherence comes with not just a urine test for compliance to the medication, but that you’ll get called in and they’ll sit you down and have a little chat about while you’re missing your medications. So it’s more about a program of testing and some pressure to boost your adherence. Not just a test.

    So, obviously that’s gonna get people to be better about taking their medication. I don’t know why they wasted a bunch of money in time testing that idea out. One would think the results would be obvious to anybody with a brain.

    • SillyDude@lemmy.zip
      31·
      4 days ago

      I don’t know why they wasted a bunch of money in time testing that idea out.

      They’re manufacturing consent to drug test everyone at every visit. Palantir told the NHS that urine analysis of every person at every visit is vital data that they need. They’re not just looking at whether you’re taking the drugs you’re prescribed, urine analysis will show everything you’ve taken, in addition to lots of other health indicators.

      • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
        41·
        3 days ago

        But that’s not what they’re doing. They’re only testing half of the people in the study, and they’re only testing for the blood pressure medication.

        There is no one magical urinalysis that tests for everything. A test like that might actually be several different tests, each one of them costing possibly a lot of money (even a cheap urinalysis isn’t really all that cheap). That’s a ridiculous waste of both money and time that palantir isn’t gonna pay for, and the NHS certainly isn’t. Not for a single study. Who the hell would fund that?

        That’s not how any of this works. In order to be able to publish a study like this (or to even get proper funding), in any scientific or medical journal worth reading, they have to publish their entire methodologies, their funding, etc. Not the crazy conspiracy theory bullshit you’re talking about.

        This is a sort of thing I’d expect to hear out of Alex Jones. Well, not anymore… Not since he got his crazy person YouTube channel taken away from him.

  • pammyfromthesticks@mander.xyzEnglish
    1·
    4 days ago

    One more threat vector for corparate merica to use against you, one more reason to deny… n0w tAkE y0Ur MeDiCiNe… but but it makes me sick… healthcare don’t care