Medical Sniffer Uses Bad Breath To Detect Disease!
Globe|August 26, 2019

Discovers Parkinson’s, diabetes & other killers

Medical Sniffer Uses Bad Breath To Detect Disease!

A HIGH-TECH “sniff-cam” can detect whether you’re sick just by smelling your bad breath!

The device is based on the science that proves the human body excretes a variety of scent compounds through the breath.

Illnesses such as diabetes, lung cancer, and Parkinson’s disease, for example, all produce distinct odorous molecules, called disease biomarkers, in the breath.

But the type of scent compound and its proportion varies with the disease.

This story is from the August 26, 2019 edition of Globe.

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